How to Use thievery in a Sentence

thievery

noun

• Mike sensed the teenager was nervous, looking for a way to get out from under the weight of his thievery.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
• This has to stop, because if not the thievery will continue.
  — Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
• Al convinces them to give up thievery and become buskers, sort of a fez-wearing boy band.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
• That’s a simple sort of thievery compared with the Brink’s heist, which could be one of the biggest jewelry thefts of all time.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Kaz is one of the main characters in Six of Crows, the de facto leader of the Dregs, and known for having sought-after thievery skills.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2021
• Murder of a queen Wanted for horse thievery in 1889, a summons was issued for Jim Starr.
  — Hannah Evans, Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2020
• What has made the thievery so unique is the divergent approaches.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
• No time for Andrew Hammond to revel in his thievery, though.
  — Pat Graham, The Seattle Times, 21 Apr. 2018
• But to meet rising demand, the country will have to figure out how to deal with its thievery problem first.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 May 2022
• However, San Francisco saw some of the most brazen acts of thievery.
  — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2022
• The thievery, including tools and other items, took place while the store was in an area subject to a state of disaster, the news station said.
  — Marc Ramirez, Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
• And while it’s paid off, she’s found there are some downsides to being a creator— namely, colorism and thievery.
  — Robin Mosley, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• The members of a second group likewise stole the exam, but lied only about their thievery, while telling the truth about everything else.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2019
• Yet the heart of the plan called for an act of outright thievery: to snatch a Spanish galleon loaded with virgin silver and hundreds of thousands of silver coins.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• But Duarte's alleged thievery and his wife's ability to fly to London and escape criminal charges was over the top even for them.
  — David Agren, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2017
• If there’s a personal finance class in your kid’s school, ask the teacher whether there’s a section devoted to fraud and thievery.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2021
• The older one went to prison for prostitution and petty thievery.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Looters preyed on dozens of locations, but the thievery was scattered and not widespread by 9 p.m. Monday.
  — By Mark Silva, Charles Strouse and John Donnelly, miamiherald, 24 Aug. 2015
• With such wealth to be had from the ground, poachers are a constant threat, but so far, Yenzirbo and Smith have escaped the thievery that has plagued Larry Harding.
  — Greg Kahn, National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2020
• The enigmatic portrait is no stranger to both vandalism and thievery.
  — CNN, 30 May 2022
• Science is about as reliable as the Roman god of thievery, Mercury.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2017
• This is a tradition full of scandalous stories of thievery, with the last successful heist coming in 1998.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2017
• However, the DeFi market’s growth has also been subject to a massive uptick in hacks, fraud, and thievery.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
• Gilbert self-reported Sacks' thievery to the Florida Bar.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 9 May 2018
• New books were assembled elegantly on the tables behind it, but there seemed to be no risk of thievery.
  — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• Shows like Appalachian Outlaws don’t do any favors for the thievery problem.
  — Emily Cataneo, Wired, 7 Nov. 2020
• His final act of thievery might have been Zack Greinke, from the Arizona Diamondbacks.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 26 July 2021
• Unfortunately, these bogs have been subject to peat thievery for the nursery trade.
  — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
• The master gardeners solved such turkey thievery by covering the vines and trellises with bird netting that reached the ground.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 22 Sep. 2017
• To combat Wall Street thievery, this leading forensic expert offered to teach readers how to steal legally—just like Wall Street.
  — Edward Siedle, Forbes, 26 May 2021

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024