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How to use the word stealing in a Sentence?

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If a man is stealing nuts and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you send him to college, at the end of his education, he will steal the whole railway track.

D. L. Moody

added by charleseunice
12 months ago

It had the added notoriety because it involved a lawyer who had been accused of stealing money from clients, over eight million dollars from any number of clients, a lawyer who admittedly was strung out on drugs and more than anything else, a man who’s accused of killing his wife and his son.

Clifton Newman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The evidence that you’ve heard shows that the defendant became so addicted and so dependent on the velocity of money that the millions of dollars in legal fees that he was receiving was not enough and so he started to steal. He stole by billing personal expenses to the firm ; he stole by stealing from his own family.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bucha is not normal. Mariupol is not normal. Irpin is not normal. Bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal. Stealing Ukrainian children from their families and giving them to people in Russia is not normal, we must not let President Putin’s callous indifference to human life become our own.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Don't throw away your freedom by stealing a handcuff.”

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

We've been talking about China stealing our technology for 20 years, it's still going on today, I think there's a lot of appetite to crack down on China.

Vern Buchanan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Even if you as trader making profit everyday in stock market, yet your bank account will not show rise in your balance money and rather it will keep on dwindling. Wondering why ? Because your stock broker is stealing by manipulating your account statement

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

You can literally put them completely out of business [into] bankruptcy by doing this kind of stuff. Even though stealing oil might be helping people or getting free gas, this is really a bad thing for these gas station owners.

Terry Kim

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Perpetrators such as the person stealing millions from the depositors often get shielded by accomplices in governments and in the upper-level management of the banks, the core problem is that China's financial system simply expanded far too fast relative to the size of the economy over the previous decade.

Frank Xie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here in town, they've been locking up the formula up front to make sure there's nobody stealing. So we were concerned that if it was well recognized in the mail, that somebody might pick it up.

Scott Olson/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It wasn't free, they were stealing.

Hardik Patel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've been in business for 15 years and owned other gas stations. I have never seen something like this, it wasn't free, they were stealing.

Hardik Patel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep.

Proverb

added by proverbbbbbbbbbb_1
2 years ago

Stealing one or 10 or 100 hives would result in the same charge.

Jay Freeman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You have people that will go into department stores and they'll actually have a calculator on them, they'll add up the value of what they're stealing because they know as long as it's under $950, they might as well wave at the security camera on the way out. They know there's going to be no consequence for that.

Kevin Kiley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I will absolutely stand behind the fundamental premise on why we needed bail reform in the first place, you had two individuals accused of identical crimes/offenses even stealing a backpack, and one person goes to Rikers for three years because they couldn't post bail.

Kathy Hochul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You had two individuals accused of identical crimes/offenses even stealing a backpack, and one person goes to Rikers for three years because they couldn't post bail.

Kathy Hochul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These are people who make a living stealing and reselling. This is not a one-time opportunistic or need-based robbery.

Cory Lowe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They're not going to keep stealing because we upped the security devices, we're a family business. The community has been very supportive for us and we believe that we're going to fight back. Not like they fight. We're going to fight back just by looking out for one another, being there for one another, and it's going to come to a stop. It's going to come to a stop.

Austin Gary

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People know what they're seeing, and now that everything is being caught on video, they know exactly what it is, it doesn't matter what you call it. It's stealing things, and people will use any number of synonyms for that.

Democrat Jessica Tarlov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While retailers have always suffered from general shoplifting there is a growing scourge of organized gangs which are stealing to order, the gangs are much more dangerous for retailers and for customers shopping in stores.

Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What happened in Afghanistan has solidified those views and moreover, on top of that they are trying to create a narrative that will promote America’s decline, there is a very wide ranging, comprehensive approach to displace the United States as pre-eminent world power, that includes stealing our technology, sowing divisions between the U.S. and its allies, campaigns to heighten political divisiveness in the US, the list goes on and on.

James Anderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love my law firm family and also love Alex as my brother. While I will support him in his recovery, I do not support, condone, or excuse his conduct in stealing by manipulating his most trusted relationships, i will continue to pursue my client's interests with the highest degree of honesty and integrity, as I always have.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Water stealing has never been more severe.

John Nores

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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