THEFT in a Sentence

Learn THEFT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

44 example sentences for THEFT, such as:

1. Car theft is on the increase.
2. She has six convictions for theft.
3. Please give me a report on the theft.
4. Please fill out a report on the theft.
5. What he had just done smacked of theft.

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 Meanings and Examples of THEFT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
theft
 n.  act of taking something from someone unlawfully; stealing
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Half of the adventure was completed; it only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it to take a short trip in the direction of the poor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
2  Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
3  On leaving the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway on the person of a little Savoyard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
4  One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and that he had actually been guilty of theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
5  It is about a sort of blackguard; a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
6  The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples had not been circumstantially proved.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
7  He obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
8  It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
9  He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
10  The theft of a nation cannot be allowed by prescription.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
11  Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
12  She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
13  A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
14  What he had just done smacked of theft.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP
15  Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a second offence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The D-notice was lifted after news of the computer theft was circulated by an international news agency.
2  She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car.
3  A security number had been etched on the car window as a protection against theft.
4  The police want to interview every employee about the theft.
5  Please fill out a report on the theft.
6  Protecting yourself from identity theft is a matter of treating all your personal and financial documents as top secret information.
7  Car theft is on the increase.
8  We rang the insurance company to report the theft.
9  Poverty is not a disgrace, but theft is a disgrace.
10  Please give me a report on the theft.
11  Car manufacturers ought to produce vehicles which are more secure against theft.
12  She has six convictions for theft.
13  The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.
14  The criminal was sentenced to prison for theft.
15  The manner of his election will have failed to impress, with a hugely inflated voters roll, the theft of ballot boxes by the army.