stolen

Example Sentences

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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

When stray cat Kanyon's bed was stolen at a shopping mall, residents decided to build him a new home.

From Barron's

From the door, I see Father chanting from the Torah, being careful not to touch the Hebrew words with his fingers, since the silver yad, the pointer, was stolen in Toledo.

From Literature

Where coming-of-age stories often confront the crush of innocence — the fracture and shock of stolen virtue — Thompson-Hernández instead renders one about preservation.

From Los Angeles Times