Pickpocket

"Pickpocket" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Some brave passengers caught the pickpocket and turned him over to the police.

Rumor says that she is a pickpocket.

The pickpocket disappeared into the crowd.

I caught a pickpocket dead to rights when he stole my money.

The police arrested the pickpocket in the act.

He seized the pickpocket by the collar.

The only one who enjoys a crowded subway car is a pickpocket.

Tom was the victim of a pickpocket.

I was a victim of a pickpocket.

Some pickpocket stole my wallet on the train.

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Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.

For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.

Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.

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