How to Use theft in a Sentence
theft
noun
- He was found guilty of theft.
- The theft of the jewelry and other valuables was immediately reported to the police.
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The risks of theft and raids from the DEA were constant.
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Tim Dickinson,
Rolling Stone,
17 Dec. 2022
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The victim was in their car in each case at the time of the theft.
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Fox News,
21 July 2022
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The assets were worth about $540 million on the date of the theft.
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Dustin Volz,
WSJ,
8 Sep. 2022
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There were only 148 such thefts in the same months last year.
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BostonGlobe.com,
7 June 2023
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The concept of wage theft is a little had for some to wrap their heads around.
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Laura Johnston,
cleveland,
30 Aug. 2023
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In many cases, the items are locked away to prevent theft.
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Sarah Nassauer,
WSJ,
27 Sep. 2022
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The value of the items stolen in the burglaries and thefts is unknown.
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Ryan MacAsero,
The Mercury News,
30 June 2024
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The sheriff office's auto theft unit was looped in to look for the Equinox.
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Kylie Martin,
Detroit Free Press,
23 June 2024
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An employee was in the restroom at the time of the theft, which took less than a minute, the lieutenant said.
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City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 June 2023
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Cooper was charged with theft alongside the adult and sent to the Dozier school rather than prison.
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Ct Jones,
Rolling Stone,
15 Dec. 2024
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That theft occurred prior to the theft at the Holiday Inn.
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Andy Attina / Cleveland.com,
cleveland,
17 Aug. 2023
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The key to the story is, in fact, the theft and deception of art, of the making of culture itself.
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Deborah Treisman,
The New Yorker,
24 July 2023
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But the theft, and others like it, only push her to keep working.
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Ct Jones,
Rolling Stone,
15 Sep. 2022
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His son, Grant Bell, pleaded guilty to theft and will be sentenced next on Sept. 9.
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Alissa Widman Neese,
Axios,
12 Aug. 2024
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One of the driving factors: a thirty-five-per-cent jump in firearm theft.
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Mike Spies,
The New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2022
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Partly thanks to that move, theft will stay flat this year, TJX predicts.
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Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
7 June 2024
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Rights groups such as Amnesty say that includes deaths, injuries and wage theft.
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Marina Lopes,
Washington Post,
23 Aug. 2022
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Arrested for theft were a Cleveland man, 19, and a Maple Heights man, 18.
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cleveland,
19 Sep. 2023
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The 20-year-old was fired and is now charged with theft, officials told McClatchy News.
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Olivia Lloyd,
Charlotte Observer,
2 May 2024
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Plus, the theft came months after someone had stolen her wallet out of her car.
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The Indianapolis Star,
20 Sep. 2022
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But the theft of the jade stone turns out to be part of a larger mystery tied to Chinese mythology.
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Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
9 Oct. 2024
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Police added the driver was wearing the same Amazon vest, hat and mask that were in the theft recordings.
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Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Oct. 2024
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Rising theft—and stores’ measures to prevent it—could dull that edge.
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Jinjoo Lee,
WSJ,
23 Dec. 2022
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Not that the native people would have taken a percentage of the theft.
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W. Kamau Bell,
CNN,
13 Aug. 2022
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Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara is in talks to plead guilty to the theft of the baseball star’s money.
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Trisha Garcia-Easto,
Sacramento Bee,
11 Apr. 2024
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The sheriff took him into custody on a theft of an airplane charge.
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Julia Daye,
Sacramento Bee,
9 Feb. 2024
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Three people were recently arrested in connection with the theft of over 150 pounds of copper wire, according to a news release from Fort Worth police.
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Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Feb. 2025
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The first major legislation taken up by the new Congress was the Laken Riley Act, which mandates the detention of migrants without legal status charged with burglary, theft and shoplifting.
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Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
23 Jan. 2025
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