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How to use steal in a sentence

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Claims of working for the fictitious water board allowed bogus callers to steal from the home of an elderly Chelmsford resident.
The crew of a U.S. submarine is sent on a top-secret mission to board a disabled German U-boat and steal a secret encoding device.
Thus when she re-enters the store she is entering a part of a building as a trespasser intending to steal.
On an interstellar penal colony, a group of criminal aliens steal a spaceship and chart a course for Earth.
At that point, if you steal my remote, or my one daily allotted cookie, I will wail on you.
And it was a substitute, a veritable steal, and a serial larcenist who assured them of it.
The Thugs strangle their victims, steal their possessions, and bury them in pre-dug pits.
A youth who helped steal a chalice from an amusement arcade appeared before Burnley Magistrates for the second time in as many days.
Now, they're called super shoplifters, and while they can't leap a building in a single bound, they probably could steal most of what was in it.
For example, preventing someone from stealing is not a restriction on their liberty, on this view, since they had no right to steal.
Papa always said that he would rather starve than steal, but what father can look on while his little ones shiver?
Thieves in Bushenyi district are giving cattle waragi to make it easier to steal them.
I mean you just jacked someone else's car. You cheat, steal, and bend the rules to your liking whenever you want.
We had this one washerman when I was girl who would constantly steal my knickers.
In fact from an investment banking perspective it was a steal, and questionably legal in some jurisdictions due to the marketing of it.
Sure, you can steal the photocopying toner from work and queue-jump at the bakers, but the Dark One is fickle with his acolytes.
The foreigner had tried to steal expensive diamond jewelry at knifepoint from a service girl.
Birds of prey, crows, ravens, and raccoons try to steal their eggs and chicks.
He then returned to steal from the property on the Tuesday and Wednesday of the following week.
A more crude approach is bin raiding, where thieves steal rubbish to search for sensitive documents such as bank statements or utility bills.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A steal is made when a base-runner gets from one base to another without the assistance of a base hit or an error.
Such a ball is snapped from the wrist and should be aimed to catch the base runner who is attempting to steal the base.
Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats, ah!
They steal from others, and are not very likely therefore to leave them at the foundling.
It scarcely resisted the ancients of Dedham, when they attempted to steal it.
The night after, while I lay huddled in my shirtcloak and blanket by the fire, I saw Cuinn slip out of his bedroll and steal away.
With the fly rod he was very skilful, and he would occasionally steal a few days' holiday to indulge in trout or salmon fishing.
Its erection was an attempt to steal absolution for the sins of its citizens.
And even when the feller got afoul of him, the chances are the old land-pirut would steal the brick.
The caracara will craftily follow the sportsman, and steal away game that is not quickly bagged.
He will not steal it, nor distort it with his supernatural chisels, nor make fun of it.
To appropriate another man's design was no more nor less than to embezzle his money or steal his goods.
We caterwaul and scratch and steal, just as human beings in our situation would take to drink.
They will not actually steal, but they will cheat you every time and chortle over it.
Then the men on bases tried to make a double steal, which was partially successful.
It was a time for desperate measures, and McRae gave the signal for a double steal.
As he crouches, he picks up a pebble and throws it out of his way, and two base runners start a double steal.
Another play on which the changes have often been rung is the double steal with men on first and third bases.
McGraw would attempt the double steal, and both throws would be accurate, and the runner caught at the plate.
After that the drabble, an it liked him, might steal all the collars in the Pleasance.
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