How to Use shoplift in a Sentence

shoplift

verb

• The kids shoplifted candy from the store.
• The manager saw the kids shoplift and called the police.
• Stevens said his client was in the store and in the process of selecting an item to purchase and hadn't shoplifted.
  — Aimee Green, OregonLive.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• Someone was shoplifting Tuesday in the 600 block of Hoagie Drive.
  — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 8 Mar. 2018
• Police say she was caught shoplifting at the Meijer at Main Street and Ind. 135.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2017
• Vandegriff said the goal was to send a message to people who shoplift and use weapons.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2017
• Chow thought the boy had shoplifted four bottles of water.
  — Jeffrey Collins, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• The only crime that has seen a spike is shoplifting, with a 24 percent increase.
  — Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• What happened to the man who shoplifted a calendar on New Year’s Eve?
  — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2019
• He and Jose were later cited for shoplifting in Athens.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2024
• No charges were filed against a girl for attempting to shoplift merchandise 4 p.m. Nov. 23 at the CVS store.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2021
• In Utah in 2020, he was arrested again for shoplifting.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Will people be more likely to shoplift if there are few or no employees in a store?
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
• In her teens, she was arrested for shoplifting and sent to reform schools.
  — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• There were reports of these same women shoplifting at Kohl’s stores in Delafield and Neenah.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2017
• There was no indication the man had been shoplifting, the spokesperson added.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in the city last year involved just 327 people, the police said.
  — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• Kevin Brown is the officer who shot an 11-year-old girl with a stun gun in a Kroger shoplifting incident.
  — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2019
• The shop has a full-time security guard because so many people try to shoplift.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• That was followed by a shoplifting spree at a Somerville Walgreens on a weekday morning in 2005.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Is there a general age range for people who are shoplifting at your store?
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 21 Feb. 2023
• Earlier in the month, she was accused of shoplifting more than $300 worth of items from a local Walmart.
  — Pamela Ren Larson, azcentral, 5 Jan. 2020
• Police say the two shoplifted from a Walmart in Tempe shortly before stealing the pick-up truck.
  — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 19 Aug. 2019
• She was caught attempting to shoplift silver jewelry and spent a night in jail.
  — Marsha Mercer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2018
• Officers told the men that police had gotten a call about three black men shoplifting.
  — Rachel Rice, ajc, 8 May 2018
• The incident was determined to be a theft by shoplifting.
  — Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2020
• But instead of helping each other break their bad habits, the girls decide to team up and shoplift together.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 17 June 2019
• Lessons on how to break into cars eventually progressed to how to shoplift.
  — Monroe Trombly, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2022
• The officers, who were in the parking lot of a Kroger on an unrelated call, had been flagged down by a store employee who accused Young and several others of shoplifting items from the store, including liquor.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
• The study's authors also note that shoplifting statistics tend to be less accurate than reports of other crimes, like homicides, for example.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024