- present participle of purloin.
purloining
Example Sentences
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With regard to a Hemingway purloining on “Love and Theft”: “Dylan implants only part of the original sentence, while presumably expecting us to cough up the whole.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
“You know, they say that Atlanta influences everything,” Williams told the crowd, purloining a phrase often used to describe Atlanta’s paramount place in African American and broader American culture.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2022
And those who get their kicks from purloining stuff that they’re expected to pay for were especially grumpy.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2014
One of the rare politicians who paid a price for purloining was Joe Biden, whom I profiled in the magazine last week.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2014
The purloining of the Crown jewels, perhaps, he might consider, but I don't think that anything less in the way of robbery would bring him here.
From The Double Four by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
