How do you use Thief in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like stealer or criminal, plus the exact meaning.
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.
Using Thief
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: stealer, criminal, felon, crook.
- In the example corpus, thief often appears in combinations such as: the thief, thief who, thief and.
Context around Thief
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thief
- In this selection, "thief" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, horse, named, river, caused and inside stand out and add context to how "thief" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include center in thief river falls and 2 and thief 3 resolve. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thief" sits close to words such as chennai, curiosity and edgar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thief
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They will only H-arrest the Privatization thief, inside Trading thief and money laundering thief. (15 words)
A car thief has allegedly been busted stealing a car fitted with a tracking device. (15 words)
Three identical robbers named Thief 1, Thief 2 and Thief 3 resolve to dig a hole to rob a bank. (20 words)
The bottom bar is slanted for two reasons, to represent the very real agony which Christ experienced on the cross (a refutation of Docetism ) and to signify that the thief on Christ's right chose the right path while the thief on the left did not. (46 words)
He said one afternoon he got a tip off from the village headman that they had caught a thief with a goat and the headman said that everybody should go at the checkpoint to identify the thief. (37 words)
Somewhere along the journey, a thief stole the heavy chest, thinking it was full of valuables, but its contents were dumped into the James River when the thief discovered it was only filled with papers. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman (17) explains that since the first thief is obligated to replace the object that he stole to its original owner, the second thief caused the first thief a loss.
Three identical robbers named Thief 1, Thief 2 and Thief 3 resolve to dig a hole to rob a bank.
Carol Suronen, 82 of Thief River Falls passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at Thief River Care Center in Thief River Falls, MN.
They will only H-arrest the Privatization thief, inside Trading thief and money laundering thief.
The Abure loyalists shouted and dragged Apapa all over the place shouting “You must not talk, you are an impostor, thief, thief.
Doris Smeby, of Grygla, MN, passed away on Sunday, February 23, 2020 at the Thief River Care Center in Thief River Falls, MN, at the age of 89.
Obviously even a thief cannot admit to stealing until his caught but he knows in his heart that his a thief.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation, Thief River Falls and the Red Lake Watershed coordinated work on 10 construction projects in Thief River Falls and near the city, MnDOT reported.
Angie Marquis, 91, of Goodridge, MN passed away Monday, August 20, 2018 at Thief River Care Center in Thief River Falls, MN.
He said one afternoon he got a tip off from the village headman that they had caught a thief with a goat and the headman said that everybody should go at the checkpoint to identify the thief.
In a sign of Pakistan's bitter political divisions, opposition politicians surrounded Khan and disrupted his speech throughout by shouting "thief, thief Imran Khan" and "puppet".
Video surveillance the would-be thief standing at the front of the store ready to buy something, when the would-be thief lunges for the man’s wallet, and immediately taking off.
An example is Fifth Generation director Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Horse Thief (1986), a narrative film with minimal dialog on a Tibetan horse thief.
In The Thief and the Dogs (1961) he depicted the fate of a Marxist thief, who has been released from prison and plans revenge.
It has been theorized that it derives from the Proto-Indo-European root that also produces the Vedic pra math, "to steal," hence pramathyu-s, "thief", cognate with "Prometheus", the thief of fire.
One player is a thief whose goal is to steal paintings while the other players attempt to apprehend the thief.
Somewhere along the journey, a thief stole the heavy chest, thinking it was full of valuables, but its contents were dumped into the James River when the thief discovered it was only filled with papers.
The bottom bar is slanted for two reasons, to represent the very real agony which Christ experienced on the cross (a refutation of Docetism ) and to signify that the thief on Christ's right chose the right path while the thief on the left did not.
A band of adventurers and a thief are on a mission to retrieve a lost relic, but things quickly go south as they encounter the wrong people.
A car thief has allegedly been busted stealing a car fitted with a tracking device.
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×