theft

[θeft]

Definition:
1. The crime of stealing something from a person or place.
2. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully.

Use 'theft' in a sentence:

• 1. The finder of a wallet who takes it home may be guilty of theft.
• 2. She admitted theft.
• 3. They include photos repurposed for inappropriate or illegal means, identity theft, embarrassments, bullying by peers or digital kidnapping.
• 4. She'd find a way to forgive him for the theft of the money.
• 5. At 17, he had a criminal record for petty theft.
• 6. In fact, in this case, the same person could be both a victim and a witness in a particular theft.
• 7. He's boasted of being involved in the arms theft.
• 8. Car theft is now reaching epidemic proportions.
• 9. Data and identity theft becomes more and more common.
• 10. The image of art theft as a gentleman's crime is outdated.
• 11. Police are investigating the theft of computers from the company's offices.
• 12. The detection rate for motor vehicle theft that year was just 11.7 per cent.
• 13. Their safety and property are threatened by various crimes: robbery, theft, rape, kidnapping, murder, arson, vandalism and violence.
• 14. We automatically insure your belongings against fire and theft.
• 15. Art theft is now part of organised crime.
• 16. He was imprisoned for 18 months on charges of theft.
• 17. The police have excluded theft as a motive for the murder.
• 18. He was conditionally discharged after admitting the theft.
• 19. Secret investigations have netted ninety staff suspected of fraud and theft.
• 20. Protecting yourself from identity theft is a matter of treating all your personal and financial documents as top secret information.
• 21. In 1994, Michael Fay, an 18-year-old teenager living in Singapore with his father, was sentenced to caning for theft and vandalism.
• 22. Are you fully covered for fire and theft?
• 23. Consider, for example, the benefits of police protection from theft.
• 24. He was on trial for theft.
• 25. "He's been arrested for theft and burglary."—"Good grief!"
• 26. He resigned after being suspected of theft.
• 27. A young woman admitted three theft charges and was put on probation for two years.
• 28. The frequency of whale fish theft in the Bering Sea's continental shelf is increasing.
• 29. She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car.
• 30. If too much publicity is given to the theft of important works, the works will become too hot to handle and be destroyed.
• 31. Theft of motor vehicles is up by 15.9%.
• 32. His were not merely crimes of theft but of violence against elderly people.
• 33. You should take out travel insurance covering you and your family against theft.
• 34. She appeared on six charges of theft.
• 35. Computer crimes include data theft and pirating software.
• 36. Over the last decade, auto theft has increased by over 56 percent.
• 37. It isn't insured against theft.
• 38. Are we insured against theft?
• 39. She is serving two years for theft.
• 40. Our policy offers complete protection against fire and theft.
• 41. Last year the detection rate for car theft was just 13%.
• 42. Her assistant was accused of theft and fraud by the police.
• 43. I reported the theft to the police.
• 44. She has six previous convictions for theft.