How to Use shoplift in a Sentence

shoplift

verb
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  • 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
  • An 83-year-old woman, for example, was accused of shoplifting a pie.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
  • And the varying degrees of penalties for shoplifting in different states continue to be a contentious issue.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 July 2024

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