How do you use Pickpocket in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like cutpurse or dip, plus the exact meaning.
Pickpocket in a sentence
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Pickpocket meaning
One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
Using Pickpocket
- The main meaning on this page is: One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
- Useful related words include: cutpurse, dip, thief, stealer.
- In the example corpus, pickpocket often appears in combinations such as: the pickpocket, to pickpocket, and pickpocket.
Context around Pickpocket
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pickpocket
- In this selection, "pickpocket" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, petty, teenage, mongolian, perk, trying and cassandra stand out and add context to how "pickpocket" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a mongolian pickpocket gang and a petty pickpocket. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pickpocket" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pickpocket
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Pickpocket perk tree features a perk called Poisoned. (9 words)
The next case is the arrest of a Mongolian pickpocket gang. (11 words)
Yinusa confessed that he used to pickpocket and burgle people’s homes, businesses before taking to armed robbery. (18 words)
Born in Columbia to an alcoholic prostitute mother who beat her, as a child Griselda would dig graves to bury the dead in the civil war-torn country, and by her teens she was also a prostitute and pickpocket. (39 words)
Some sources blamed it on a quarrel between wheelbarrow porters, while yet another source linked it to a pickpocket caught and brutalised by a mob which triggered a “reprisal” from a group which felt its member was deliberately targeted. (39 words)
The orphaned Storm lived as a thief and pickpocket in Cairo before eventually traveling south to Kenya as a teenager where, after discovering her weather powers, she became a local shaman-goddess, watering the crops of local villagers. (38 words)
Example sentences (15)
The Pickpocket perk tree features a perk called Poisoned.
This means that anyone with access to a person’s cards — a roommate, an abusive partner, a pickpocket, or someone who purchased information from a data breach — can track which subway stations they enter every day.
A train from Liege helped save the day, albeit I caught a pickpocket trying to steal my phone on my way to the platform, and my total journey time was a staggering 17 hours.
It's comforting to know that Bleeding Cool's management has invested in an AI with ambitions that make Lex Luthor look like a petty pickpocket.
Born in Columbia to an alcoholic prostitute mother who beat her, as a child Griselda would dig graves to bury the dead in the civil war-torn country, and by her teens she was also a prostitute and pickpocket.
He told police he fell asleep, then woke up to a group of teens surrounding him trying to pickpocket him.
Through mere happenstance Harley finds herself thrust into a story featuring The Huntress (a vengeful assailant), Black Canary (a vigilante songbird), detective Renee Montoya and teenage pickpocket Cassandra Cain.
Imagine a pickpocket so skilled, he could steal your credit cards from a few feet away without you feeling a thing.
The next case is the arrest of a Mongolian pickpocket gang.
The orphaned Storm lived as a thief and pickpocket in Cairo before eventually traveling south to Kenya as a teenager where, after discovering her weather powers, she became a local shaman-goddess, watering the crops of local villagers.
Yinusa confessed that he used to pickpocket and burgle people’s homes, businesses before taking to armed robbery.
In his confessional statement, the pickpocket told the police how Amechi and his gang encouraged him to continue to steal phones.
Some sources blamed it on a quarrel between wheelbarrow porters, while yet another source linked it to a pickpocket caught and brutalised by a mob which triggered a “reprisal” from a group which felt its member was deliberately targeted.
Among other incidents, Mercury shows himself to be an expert pickpocket, while Neptune causes chaos in the fish market.
For example, Oliver Twist turns out to be the lost nephew of the upper-class family that rescues him from the dangers of the pickpocket group.
Common combinations with pickpocket
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the pickpocket 3×
- to pickpocket 3×
- and pickpocket 2×