Explore Pilfered through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pilfered meaning
simple past and past participle of pilfer
Using Pilfered
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of pilfer
- In the example corpus, pilfered often appears in combinations such as: pilfered by, allegedly pilfered, was pilfered.
Context around Pilfered
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pilfered
- In this selection, "pilfered" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, secrets, broders, allegedly, small, off and seeming stand out and add context to how "pilfered" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2003 has pilfered the country and and broders pilfered small sticks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pilfered" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pilfered
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
American officials traveling to China take elaborate countermeasures to avoid having government secrets pilfered. (14 words)
Has the picture been taken by dragons, pinched by mermaids, or has it been pilfered by a superhero? (18 words)
Wednesday, Houston confirmed that it had officially pilfered from West Virginia to be its next head football coach. (18 words)
This is the place where Russell Wilson pilfered seeming victories from them, where the weight of one of the loudest outdoors stadiums and most passionate fan bases can make the fourth quarter feel like a grunge mosh pit with a goal line. (42 words)
Knowing that a third-party app pilfered millions of users’ data in a manner that violated Facebook’s rules and waiting years to do anything about it is not a case of being too slow to react. (37 words)
E.O. to testify in the wake of news that data from tens of millions of users was pilfered by Cambridge Analytica—Trump has opted instead to focus his fire on Amazon. (32 words)
Has the picture been taken by dragons, pinched by mermaids, or has it been pilfered by a superhero? (18 words)
Example sentences (14)
American officials traveling to China take elaborate countermeasures to avoid having government secrets pilfered.
Has the picture been taken by dragons, pinched by mermaids, or has it been pilfered by a superhero?
Schindler and her two sisters made their way back to their family home in Czechoslovakia to find it pilfered of all their belongings, her son said.
Thorndike and Broders pilfered small sticks from cut bushes in the neighborhood, drying, cutting and gluing them together to create miniature deciduous trees to spruce up the landscapes.
You have issues with handling public monies as well – as governor, you had a reputation for saving up a bunch of money which your successor allegedly pilfered.
O’Shea miscontrolled a pass and was pilfered off the ball by Dwight McNeil before he was taken out by the Burnley centre-back.
This is the place where Russell Wilson pilfered seeming victories from them, where the weight of one of the loudest outdoors stadiums and most passionate fan bases can make the fourth quarter feel like a grunge mosh pit with a goal line.
According to the Washington Post, DiCaprio appeared as a witness against accused fraudster whom the Justice Department says pilfered and laundered billions of dollars from a Malaysian government investment fund.
As a child, I coveted it like a toy and as an adult I first pilfered, then inherited it.
Cohen’s assertion supplies new evidence that Trump knew about, and made encouraging statements about, the release of the pilfered documents.
Wednesday, Houston confirmed that it had officially pilfered from West Virginia to be its next head football coach.
E.O. to testify in the wake of news that data from tens of millions of users was pilfered by Cambridge Analytica—Trump has opted instead to focus his fire on Amazon.
Knowing that a third-party app pilfered millions of users’ data in a manner that violated Facebook’s rules and waiting years to do anything about it is not a case of being too slow to react.
Protests against corruption, poor services and unemployment are challenging the Shiite political class that since 2003 has pilfered the country's resources.
Common combinations with pilfered
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pilfered by 2×
- allegedly pilfered 2×
- was pilfered 2×
- the pilfered 2×