How to Use larceny in a Sentence

larceny

noun

• He was arrested and charged with larceny.
• He has been accused of several larcenies.
• On the larceny of a firearm charge, Briggs faces five years in prison and/or a $2,500 fine.
  — Evan Sasiela, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2019
• Pompano Beach also had the third most larcenies with 3,121.
  — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 25 June 2019
• Malin is hoping the police can work with Duane Reade to reduce the larcenies.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 14 May 2018
• The two face sentences of up to 15 years in prison on felony charges including grand larceny.
  — Allen Salkin, Vanities, 2 Mar. 2017
• Most geek(kid)s don’t want to break into a locked area to commit larceny.
  — John Baichtal, WIRED, 30 July 2007
• Martinez was charged with five counts of larceny theft and released on bond.
  — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 14 Sep. 2017
• Love and larceny is in the air; Theron and Craig will play career thieves whose relationship spans the course of three big jobs.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• Carl Ferraro, 57, of Darien was charged with eight counts of first-degree larceny.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2022
• The man was called to the police station where he was convicted of a felony warrant and larceny.
  — Alex Polyakov, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• And in 1982, he was arrested for larceny of women's shoes from a Kmart.
  — Patricia Alvord, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• Trump won’t do a deal unless there’s something extra—a kind of moral larceny—in it.
  — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2017
• Trudeau was charged with larceny and is scheduled to appear in court later this month.
  — Ruth Bruno, courant.com, 6 July 2018
• His most recent arrest was on a grand larceny charge, on May 16.
  — Sean Piccoli and Ashley Southall, New York Times, 5 June 2017
• She has been charged with first-degree larceny and third-degree forgery.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
• Brian Askin, 24, of St. Clair Shores, is charged with larceny from a person in the alleged incident at the bank.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2024
• Mangum was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder and two counts of larceny in March 2011.
  — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
• The limits of their larceny are small-time, their purpose much bigger.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• She was charged with first-degree larceny and third-degree forgery.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• In Salt Lake City, reports of larceny are down slightly compared to last year.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2021
• Through his early years on the force, Jenkins goes from learning how to scam the overtime rules to outright larceny.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Meanwhile, law enforcement is trying to put a stop to the larceny.
  — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• In 2020, the most recent year for which data are available, reports of robbery and larceny fell off a cliff.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2021
• At the Lu-Rae, there was one report of an assault and one of larceny during that period.
  — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Court records show that he was convicted of third-degree forgery and fourth-degree larceny in 2018.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2024
• He was charged with larceny, identity theft, and fraud; and facing up to 90 years in jail, according to the Sun Sentinel.
  — Essence.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Her mother, Cynthia Williams, 60, was charged in March with five counts each of larceny, forgery and identity theft.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 5 June 2018
• Shootings fell by 7 percent, and burglaries, robberies and larcenies were also down.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• After reviewing our contract and proof of payment, the movers were ordered to give us our belongings or be arrested for larceny and their trucks be impounded.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025