How to Use heist in a Sentence

heist

1 of 2 verb
  • There are good jokes that work and heist setpieces that don’t.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 June 2019
  • Houston bank branches have been hit with a steady beat of armored truck heists in recent years that involve brazen attacks on couriers.
    — Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The movie chronicles the red sanders heist in the hills of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Dieter is brought in to help heist a sequence of legendary, impossible-to-crack safes across Europe.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2021
  • How can attempting to heist a sequence of legendary, impossible-to-crack safes across Europe not be fun?
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The security officer said one man provided a distraction, while his partner heisted a large-screen television.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Waymo has drawn a sordid picture, contending that Levandowski heisted thousands of documents containing Google trade secrets before defecting to Uber.
    — Michael Liedtke, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018

heist

2 of 2 noun
  • The cast for the new heist thriller movie is stacked.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Why not pull off a major bank heist?
    — Kate Stroup, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Every move is planned like a heist.
    — Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • No one was injured in the heist.
    — Brittany Kubicko, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Louvre heist sounds like a movie plot.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Yes, the grand heist fulfills the ego.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Three heists in the space of a year does start to look careless.
    — Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The heist was one of the defining events in the art world last year.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 13 May 2026
  • The heist is their last chance to protect and provide.
    — Jenny Lumet, Vanity Fair, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This isn’t the first heist at the museum.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Cate Blanchett is pulling off a space-faring heist in her new movie.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The book implies they were killed to keep them from talking about the heist.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
  • There are even heist bags, which are like chests that only contain gear for heists.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Such attacks can be thought of as a form of digital bank heist.
    — Nolan Fahrenkopf, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
  • An Italian art heist took less than three minutes.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Migueli leaves jail to get together his old crew for a series of bold heists.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Grier received the kind of elite recon that all great heists need.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • Two others were charged in connection with the heist this week.
    — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Along each step of the heist, the thieves had left easy evidence to collect.
    — Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This isn't the Louvre's first high-profile heist.
    — NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The footage shows the heist lasted roughly five minutes.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Part of a growing trend of museum heists.
    — Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Many Pokémon card heists exceed that.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • In short, in a heist story the bad guys are basically the good guys.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Museum heists are all the rage now, from the Louvre on down.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The heist occurred in broad daylight and was even caught on video by an eyewitness.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The streaming giant announced Berlin and his gang will be back with a new heist.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • In the first overtime, the Nuggets pulled off an even trickier heist.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Click or tap here to read more about how these skilled burglars executed heists.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2025
  • There are pet-store heists and violent robberies, at least one of them deadly.
    — CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024

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