How to Use shoplifter in a Sentence

shoplifter

noun

• The shoplifter then left the store with the bag on the bike, the video shows.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 22 June 2021
• The shoplifter then leaves the store with the bag on the bike, the video shows.
  — Eric Levenson and Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 16 June 2021
• The shoplifter, who was older, may have dumped the goods.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2019
• Nearly half of shoplifters (48%) have been caught in the act.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
• The shoplifter, with his knife out, walked toward them.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• Police went to Marc’s at 1:33 p.m. Dec. 7 about a shoplifter.
  — cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021
• The Play-Doh trick didn’t work, though, so the would-be shoplifter ran off, police said.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 30 Mar. 2018
• The officers fired more than ten rounds, killing the shoplifter.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• That’s where the officer found the shoplifter near Ridge Park Square.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 28 July 2021
• Police checked the area at 4:03 p.m. but were unable to locate the car or the shoplifter.
  — cleveland, 10 Sep. 2021
• The officer caught up to the shoplifter at the intersection of W. 130th Street and Snow Road.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
• Lacy and other employees chased the shoplifter out of the store and into the parking lot.
  — Irving Mejia-Hilario, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• When that employee confronted the shoplifter, that person punched the clerk in the face and fled.
  — The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2017
• The guard and alleged shoplifter have not been identified.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Loss prevention at Home Depot chased a shoplifter out of the store Feb. 11 but lost sight of her in the parking lot.
  — cleveland, 16 Feb. 2022
• Walmart loss prevention reported Jan. 4 that a shoplifter had from the store and fled the area in a truck.
  — cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023
• Someone in the store flagged him down about shoplifters in the area and gave him a description of their vehicle.
  — Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2019
• On his third week of training, Mr Clements leaned against a clothes rail while arresting a shoplifter.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• In the footage, the shoplifter never looks directly into the camera, the lawsuit said.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
• And aren't all shoplifters technically sticking it to the man?
  — Leslie Richin, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
• The man then got out a syringe and tried to stab the security guard, who grabbed their firearm and shot the would-be shoplifter in the face, police said.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
• The incident happened a year before the same dog ripped the scalp off a shoplifter hiding in bushes.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• Employees of the Dillards inside the mall called 911 around 8 p.m. Wednesday to report a shoplifter who had just left the store in a white truck.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• The night janitor and a playgirl shoplifter are trapped in a discount store with armed robbers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Department stores close doors to herd would-be shoplifters to a single exit.
  — Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2018
• The video shows the furry shoplifter sitting in a bin full of candy at a store in the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 11 June 2018
• There’s the old man who slips on the shop keeper’s icy walk downtown, and the teenage shoplifter whose hands, always so quick, finally fail her.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
• Atlanta (CNN)In a rough part of this city's northwest side, the call about a shoplifter at a discount store should have been straightforward.
  — CNN, 26 May 2017
• Across the state, retailers say they have been hit hard by shoplifters since Prop 47 went into effect.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2019
• Pruitt said the men felt the police were simply doing their jobs in responding to reports of shoplifters.
  — Rachel Siegel, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024