How to Use thievery in a Sentence

thievery

noun
  • Here are 6 things to know Bulb thievery is a hard battle to win.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, this is a story of thievery.
    — Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • Al convinces them to give up thievery and become buskers, sort of a fez-wearing boy band.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
  • Another suggested that the act may have been an act of thievery.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Planning and thievery on this scale bespeaks a ring of metal poaching.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • There could be a confluence of events helping fuel that brand of across-the-board thievery.
    — Chad Jennings, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Mike sensed the teenager was nervous, looking for a way to get out from under the weight of his thievery.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
  • What has made the thievery so unique is the divergent approaches.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But to meet rising demand, the country will have to figure out how to deal with its thievery problem first.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 May 2022
  • And while it’s paid off, she’s found there are some downsides to being a creator— namely, colorism and thievery.
    — Robin Mosley, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
  • The older one went to prison for prostitution and petty thievery.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The enigmatic portrait is no stranger to both vandalism and thievery.
    — CNN, 30 May 2022
  • Our society still values laws against thievery and tax evasion even though people break them every day.
    — Ian Johnstone, The Conversation, 15 July 2019
  • Minnesotans should not accept wild violence and thievery as normal.
    — Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The act of baseball thievery can be executed in under six seconds.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 4 Sep. 2017
  • New books were assembled elegantly on the tables behind it, but there seemed to be no risk of thievery.
    — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
  • However, San Francisco saw some of the most brazen acts of thievery.
    — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Unfortunately, these bogs have been subject to peat thievery for the nursery trade.
    — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • That’s a simple sort of thievery compared with the Brink’s heist, which could be one of the biggest jewelry thefts of all time.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The members of a second group likewise stole the exam, but lied only about their thievery, while telling the truth about everything else.
    — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2019
  • If there’s a personal finance class in your kid’s school, ask the teacher whether there’s a section devoted to fraud and thievery.
    — New York Times, 25 June 2021
  • The thievery, including tools and other items, took place while the store was in an area subject to a state of disaster, the news station said.
    — Marc Ramirez, Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • But pointless thievery interests her.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Science is about as reliable as the Roman god of thievery, Mercury.
    — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2017
  • Shows like Appalachian Outlaws don’t do any favors for the thievery problem.
    — Emily Cataneo, Wired, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The master gardeners solved such turkey thievery by covering the vines and trellises with bird netting that reached the ground.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 22 Sep. 2017
  • In the Celtics’ long history of winning lopsided trades, there are different tiers of thievery.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022
  • Keller aimed to unify the industry in the hopes that liquor and soft drink companies could join forces to eliminate rampant problems like bottle thievery.
    — Liza Weisstuch, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
  • In the announcement, the sheriff’s office pointed out that the thieves put a significant amount of effort into the thievery.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • However, the DeFi market’s growth has also been subject to a massive uptick in hacks, fraud, and thievery.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021

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