How to Use filch in a Sentence

filch

verb
  • He filched a pack of gum when no one was looking.
  • Of all people to filch a flag, Young would be the last you’d finger.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 July 2021
  • Many people are too embarrassed to report they’ve been filched.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026
  • That was good news because many of the home’s small treasures — vintage glass door knobs, wall sconces — hadn’t been filched or damaged.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Femme fatales have also been known to filch other fireflies that have become trapped in spider webs.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 July 2017
  • Femme fatales have also been known to filch other fireflies that have become trapped in spider webs.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 3 July 2017
  • Dean steals cars where the others are scarcely capable of filching a loaf of bread from an untended grocery.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Some of the plotting also filches from another famous genre picture.
    — Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • On the weekends, when the bankers flee to the ’burbs, filching swigs of liquor on the Metra, the LaSalle Street canyon goes dark.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The hackers also filched the firm’s source code and proprietary technology to manage users’ accounts and password changes.
    — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2017
  • For a time, Louise ran an outfit of bookies from her room; Mae taught Burnett to filch toilet paper from a local luncheonette.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The cause of the new public relations crisis is the disclosure last week of two new ways to filch data from the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers.
    — Don Clark, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Forays like these increasingly vex trade hawks in America, who fear that China will filch its cutting-edge technology.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Every week, more stories surface of people who have been accused of stealing or sequestering vaccines, or faking their eligibility to filch a dose.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
  • As Torun’s nimble camera follows the cats doing their rounds—filching food, catching rats, scaring off interlopers—the film offers a glimpse of something richer and more poetic.
    — Vogue, 8 Aug. 2018
  • The most damaging breach was at the NSA, where Martin allegedly had filched virtually the entire library of hacking tools.
    — Ellen Nakashima, The Denver Post, 17 May 2017
  • Malicious opportunists can attempt to steal users’ information from public access computers with keystroke loggers or other data filching viruses.
    — Leeza Garber, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The Coyotes, trying desperately to filch a wild-card spot in the West, cut their deficit to 3-2 with Jakob Chychrun’s goal only 26 seconds into the third.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Nicky and Morgan get accidentally sucked into the vortex of a nasty crime syndicate after Morgan squabbles with a clerk (Boran Kuzum) about jewelry at a store and then filches it.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Warmbier was a curious college student on a tour of Pyongyang in January 2016 when he was arrested for allegedly filching a propaganda poster.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2019
  • Jones entered guilty pleas to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in schemes to defraud major sportsbooks, including DraftKings and FanDuel, and filch millions of dollars from unwitting poker players.
    — Chloe Atkins, NBC news, 29 June 2026
  • During back-to-back hearings in Brooklyn federal court, Jones entered guilty pleas to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in schemes to defraud major sportsbooks, including DraftKings and FanDuel, and filch millions of dollars from unwitting poker players.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026

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