LARCENY in a Sentence

Learn LARCENY 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.

Example sentences for LARCENY, such as:

1. When an author sells the thoughts of another man for his own, the larceny is called plagiarism.
2. For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.

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 Meanings and Examples of LARCENY
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larceny
 n.  unlawful taking and removing of another's personal property; theft
Classic Sentence:
1  They both had weak eyes, which I had long attributed to their chronically looking in at keyholes, and they were always at hand when not wanted; indeed that was their only reliable quality besides larceny.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
2  For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
3  After all, that is nothing; petty larceny, six months at the most.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
4  Everywhere were heard rumours against Chichikov, rumours with regard to the validity of the second will, rumours with regard to will number one, and rumours of larceny and concealment of funds.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  When an author sells the thoughts of another man for his own, the larceny is called plagiarism.