purloin
Example Sentences
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That's why he has to purloin someone else's work in order to finish off his novel.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023
It is the first to show some T cells purloin a protein called CD20 from the surface of B cells, he adds.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2022
A series of turns leads Bunton, during an ill-conceived trip to London to make his case against the BBC license fee to Parliament and the media, to purloin the Wellington portrait from the National Gallery.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2021
Or, to purloin a line from his novel: Are we all characters in a Beckett play directed by Sartre?
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2018
He hesitated, then stomped back the way he’d come, stopping to purloin a clean shirt from another cabin.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing purloin
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Frankenstein
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 1
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