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How to use pickpocket in a sentence

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The pickpocket was described as being white, fair-haired, in his early 20s and was wearing blue jeans, a blue jacket and a baseball cap.
I wait for the pickpocket children to come flocking, but this is a little nowhere station, and it's too early.
Many papers had to be filed about the last person who tried to pickpocket him and ended up in the hospital.
The world of the street child and juvenile pickpocket was organized, in part, around an unwritten, oral culture.
Like his brother, he was also a thief, pickpocket, mugger, robber, and arsonist, etc, but he didn't like killing people.
I got extremely paranoid that some deft pickpocket had my number and it was only a matter of time before my wallet was boosted.
Fleeing to London in 1773, he assumed the name Barrington and made his living as a gentleman pickpocket and thief.
What floor he was born on is still unknown, but for the better part of his sixteen years of life he was a thief, a pickpocket.
The gang stole purses or pulled jewellery from women on buses or in cars, he became an expert pickpocket, lookout and bagman for the gang.
It was not as precious as silver was these days but it was nice loot for a pickpocket.
After becoming an expert pickpocket he organizes a gang of thieves, whose goods he receives and sells at huge profit to himself.
The magician in close up will be disguised in marquise and the pickpocket in harlequin.
He organizes a show with provisional watches pickpocket, stopping of the remote second hand and appearance of calling cards of the company.
The pickpocket pulled away and kept fighting for breath in strangled gasps.
Villains smile like sharks, thieves are nimble as cats, a pickpocket is as slippery as an eel.
Underground stations and trains are rumoured to be frequented by pickpocket artists and bag snatchers.
To his eye, the pickpocket might have been Portuguese, or Indian, or even one of those swart little Neapolitans.
The defendant also admitted to breaching a two-year conditional discharge set by Magistrates in August after attempting to pickpocket a 78-year-old in a supermarket.
If you're just going to offer me a job, then why try to pickpocket me?
Everyone is out to pickpocket you, auto drivers cheat, cabs are too costly and anything served by the roadside is a local delicacy that is a must have and cheap.
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Examples from Classical Literature
By the ghost of Autolycus some pickpocket, while we were moralising, has abstracted our Lascelles!
Up flew the beam of the ducking stool, reliev'd of their weight, and down with a splash went the pickpocket at the far end.
There's every sort of thief among his lodgers, from a pickpocket to a housebreaker.
Would you yourself, if you had chased a pickpocket or a welsher for half a mile, mistake his identity five minutes afterwards?
When there is no more to be got out of them, he turns burglar or pickpocket, or robs a temple.
More likely because the old chap has no watch and chain for the pickpocket to steal.
Every pickpocket who exceeded or fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the changer's costumes.
The pickpocket finds it easy to unsnap a handbag and remove some of the contents, especially in crowded places.
Do you feel like a dark combination of traitor and pickpocket when you think of that girl?
Groups of spectators, diners, shoppers and tourists weave through the occasional hustler, pickpocket, knickknack seller and hashish dealer.
The pickpocket plied his trade, only he was then a cutpurse.
Her one relation was a brother of high standing as a pickpocket.
Why not have kept him here among the rest, and made a sneaking, snivelling pickpocket of him at once?
Fortunately, a light-fingered pickpocket is on hand to embark on a perilous quest through a world of magic to break the bewitchment.
Winkle bowed, and endeavoured to feign an easiness of manner, which, in his then state of confusion, gave him rather the air of a disconcerted pickpocket.
I imagine that a pickpocket, proud of his light fingers, must feel a sort of indignation with the careless woman who leaves in a cab a vanity-bag with all her jewels in it.
Moll is based on the real-life character of Mary Frith, a notorious pickpocket, who wore men's clothes, smoked a pipe and swore when she felt like it.
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