Thief means One who carries out a theft. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like criminal or crook.
Thief in a sentence
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Thief meaning
- One who carries out a theft.
- One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
- A waster in the snuff of a candle.
Synonyms of Thief
Example sentences (20)
But now they want to become owners and our institutions are such that they have made a thief the owner of the house.
Desperate for money, the two cops decide to rob a professional thief named Lorentz Vogelmann (Thomas Kretschmann).
Footage showed one of the pranksters using the ATM before he is grabbed from behind by his friend posing as a thief.
Any tech-savvy thief will have difficulty getting through a steering lock which will make a noise when tampered with.
After they took off running, one doubled back to turn the hazards on, which was oddly courteous for a car thief.
Obed claimed that Chawezi was a thief, thereby attracting a mob which helped the suspect in assaulting Chawezi.
The Oghma Infinium grants the Dragonborn an increase from one of the three classes of Mage, Thief, and Warrior.
A couple were asleep in their Caribbean hotel room when a masked thief waving a gun around broke into their room at 3am.
The thief claimed the arrangement had been for the money to be handed over when all four cars had been sold.
When Gina is walking on the road, someone could point at her and say, “That is the girl that was flogged; she is the thief”.
Gene takes it upon himself to look after the toilet and even rescues it from the thief who stole it from its rightful owners.
A young thief uses her wits to survive in a futuristic, alternate-history Beijing in this Les Misérables-inspired YA cyberpunk.
However, by taking these steps, you can increase your chances of locating your stolen console and bringing the thief to justice.
With the randomly generated 28-character sequence, a thief can reset the original owner's Apple ID password in the Settings app.
Now, one user combines these systems to make an incredibly useful piece of equipment for gamers interested in playing as a thief.
They reportedly confronted the thief, who was dressed in dark clothing with a mask covering his face.
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a brilliant thief who specializes in stealing secrets from the subconscious mind via dream-sharing.
The accused car thief is expected to be charged when he is released from the hospital, police said.
The homeowner reacted in lightening speed, quickly defending himself by shoving the would-be thief.
The thief loaded a garbage can with tobacco items he lifted straight off the shelves of a 7-Eleven.
Common combinations with thief
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the thief 51×
- thief who 17×
- thief and 16×
- thief river 16×
- car thief 10×
- thief has 7×
- thief thief 6×
- in thief 6×
- thief was 6×
- thief is 5×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word thief. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.