thieves

Example Sentences

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"I wasn't sleeping because I had lots of luggage and King's Cross is bad for thieves," the 31-year-old says.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

When thieves snatched 12 metric tons of KitKats in transit from Italy to Poland, the company capitalized with some free publicity for one of its most famous brands.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

According to investigators, the thieves went to the libraries to consult rare and valuable works, photographing and measuring them, and returned later to replace them with virtually undetectable copies.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

The wine industry has taken some measures to combat thieves and counterfeiters, but it’s an ongoing battle.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

All this meant that when Louis Lépine and Alphonse Bertillon investigated the Mona Lisa theft, they did so alongside a police force of fictional detectives and a gang of fictional thieves.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day