thievery

How To Use thievery In A Sentence

• He turned to a life of petty thievery when his friend managed to steal a gold coin from a weary traveler.
• And even in plays with twists and turns and convolutions of the storyline such as Bartholomew Fair where the names of the characters -- Littlewit, Winwife, Quarlous -- tell us what they are, their games of language and wordplay make the plot -- Puritans and rogues meet up at a county fair and fun and thievery ensue -- secondary to the fun and revelry. Play on Words
• At times Cord's own'talents verged on mountebankery. and the best of mountebanks had no little skill at thievery and its adjunctive crafts. Night Arrant
• That deadly combination has let loose a wave of vengeance killings, tribal vendettas, mercenary kidnappings and thievery.
• This kind of thievery, vandalism, individual violence and destruction expresses, not the stress of combat, but an intense hatred directed against an entire people or race.
• He tried to justify his thievery with excuses.
• The young man continued to hone his skills at thievery, and learned to use force when necessary as well.
• Much of the looting was selective thievery of a quite small number of valuable pieces, with smashing and burning of furniture and furnishings carried out to simulate looter-like behaviour.
• It continues to operate in the region today, even though cattle rustling and other forms of thievery rarely occur.
• Burglary and petty thievery, however, are common.