steal

Example Sentences

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Police said the stolen artefacts had "significant cultural value".

From BBC

Bitcoin remains stubbornly on the back foot, as surging precious metals prices continue to steal the limelight from cryptocurrencies.

From Barron's

I leave it in the common room, which is what you do with things you want stolen.

From Literature

It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.

From Barron's

The fact that the only song we hear in full is the Jones/Cook-penned “The Professionals” means it has far more impact when the Stains steal it from the Looters and make it their own.

From Salon