PICKPOCKET in a Sentence

Learn PICKPOCKET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
10 example sentences for PICKPOCKET, such as:
1. The pickpocket bolted when he saw the policeman.
2. The pickpocket was brought to the nearby police station.
3. It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter.
4. Thugs, pickpockets and prostitutes lurked in the unlit alleys and shadowy streets.
5. On my arrival I was robbed of all I had by pickpockets at the fair of St. Germain.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PICKPOCKET
pickpocket
 n.  a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
Classic Sentence:
1  It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
2  A hundred years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had its sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
3  Every pickpocket who exceeded or fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's costumes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
4  Neither could I wonder at all this, when I saw such an interruption of lineages, by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains, and pickpockets.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.
5  Thugs, pickpockets and prostitutes lurked in the unlit alleys and shadowy streets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  On my arrival I was robbed of all I had by pickpockets at the fair of St. Germain.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXI
Example Sentence:
1  The old gentleman just stood there glaring at the pickpocket and did not say a word.
2  The pickpocket tried to run away with the passenger's wallet, but he soon got caught.
3  The pickpocket bolted when he saw the policeman.
4  The pickpocket was brought to the nearby police station.