Pilfer is an English word with synonyms like cabbage or lift. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pilfer meaning
To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
Using Pilfer
- The main meaning on this page is: To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
- Useful related words include: cabbage, lift, nobble, filch.
- In the example corpus, pilfer often appears in combinations such as: to pilfer, pilfer the, pilfer and.
Context around Pilfer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pilfer
- In this selection, "pilfer" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, steal, funds, away and nouns stand out and add context to how "pilfer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to pilfer paid or and but also pilfer nouns and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pilfer" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pilfer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Together, they concocted a plan to pilfer the gold ornaments. (10 words)
And the public hopes that is all you'll pilfer while in office. (13 words)
A new model parks atop the list of vehicles that thieves love to pilfer. (14 words)
Packaging Packaging and labeling can be engineered to help reduce the risks of counterfeit consumer goods or the theft and resale of products. citation citation Some package constructions are more difficult to copy and some have pilfer indicating seals. (39 words)
At the end of the National, which Macdermott managed to pilfer away from the gallant runner-up Surrey Quest, Dan Skelton and Paul Nicholls, Mullins’s nearest pursuers, walked back to the paddock with an air of resignation. (38 words)
In this case, Skinner’s sticky fingered pursuits lead him to pilfer the invisibility formula from his comic counterpart, only to realize that it’s not exactly temporary or reversible. (30 words)
When it’s other peoples money and you can get a voting block to keep letting you steal, pilfer and waste………why would you? (24 words)
Example sentences (15)
Together, they concocted a plan to pilfer the gold ornaments.
Abdullah Saqlain used a dead man's bank account and recruited two others to pilfer funds from Jamia Al Furqan in 2018.
At the end of the National, which Macdermott managed to pilfer away from the gallant runner-up Surrey Quest, Dan Skelton and Paul Nicholls, Mullins’s nearest pursuers, walked back to the paddock with an air of resignation.
Some “how-to” theft videos, which evade detection by using the code “borrowing”, even list stores easiest to pilfer and rank them out of 10.
This not only lets you move objects, but also pilfer nouns and adjectives from entirely different pages (though you're unable to stray from your current chapter).
A new model parks atop the list of vehicles that thieves love to pilfer.
Don’t talk like that because you might open a window for the PF to pilfer more resources.
In a series of tweets, he described Pastor Mensa Otabil as a thief who leverages his position to pilfer and also spread falsehood in the name of God.
In this case, Skinner’s sticky fingered pursuits lead him to pilfer the invisibility formula from his comic counterpart, only to realize that it’s not exactly temporary or reversible.
This hacker that disclosed to Motherboard the data it was able to pilfer paid or phished a Roblox employee to get the access he or she needed instead.
When it’s other peoples money and you can get a voting block to keep letting you steal, pilfer and waste………why would you?
And the public hopes that is all you'll pilfer while in office.
Anyone who has played knows how fun it can be to poke around for loot to pilfer, but the opening area of Stilton’s mansion is largely picked over.
It’s not often a menswear season steals as many headlines as the recent run of spring/summer 2019 shows, but pilfer they did.
Packaging Packaging and labeling can be engineered to help reduce the risks of counterfeit consumer goods or the theft and resale of products. citation citation Some package constructions are more difficult to copy and some have pilfer indicating seals.
Common combinations with pilfer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to pilfer 12×
- pilfer the 3×
- pilfer and 3×