PURLOIN in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PURLOIN, such as:
1. The amateur detective Dupin saw him purloin the letter for which the police had search in vain.
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Meanings and Examples of PURLOIN
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purloin
v. steal, often in violation of trust; put away; remove
Classic Sentence:
1 To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime.
2 For our own part, we do not think so; it seems to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the shoes from a dead man.
3 Patch was superimposed upon patch, and, in place of a roof, one hut had a piece of wooden fencing, while its crumbling window-frames were stayed with sticks purloined from the barin's barn.
Example Sentence:
1 The amateur detective Dupin saw him purloin the letter for which the police had search in vain.