Sentence examples for Stolen from inspiring English sources

The word 'Stolen' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something or someone that has been taken without permission. For example, "The thief tried to steal the laptop, but the police recovered the stolen property."

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Stolen

verb

Past participle of steal

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In this week's episode we see a couple of good examples: the show starts with the tiny Donut driving another stolen car – always comic – but that scene culminates in the malevolent Officer Walker breaking his fingers.

When the Guardian's George Monbiot tweeted yesterday: "Please sign a twitter pledge not to look at stolen photos of nude celebrities.

During Australia's bid to win a seat on the security council, 14 members from the Caribbean had been impressed by Mr Rudd's apology to the Aboriginal stolen generation, Mr Carr said.

The shadow foreign minister, Ian Davidson, said: "By congratulating Robert Mugabe on his stolen election president Zuma has failed Zimbabwe, failed Zimbabweans and failed the Southern African Development Community by not providing the leadership that the region desperately required.

For far from being Nazis, the men were Polish prisoners in stolen uniforms and a misappropriated car, who had just made one of the most audacious escapes in the history of Auschwitz.

On Tuesday, the Guardian reported a further complaint made against the lieutenant in September 2013 by Andrew McAleer, the husband of Rice's former partner Karyn McAleer, who alleged he witnessed Rice holding Karyn's stolen mail and attempting to throw it into a public garbage can.

"That inquiry – conducted by two former judges and a senior accountant – found that Jack Warner had committed fraud and misappropriated the funds – in other words he had stolen the money from Concacaf … We asked Concacaf to give our money back because it wasn't used for the purpose we intended, and were advised by Fifa to wait until the inquiries were complete".

He and my father had pitched their tent in the stolen corner of a farmer's lot, and so it was from inside the fence that my brother saw, not 10 feet away from him, the newborn calf slither on to the grass, unfurl its legs, and stand.

In August Nadir was convicted on 10 "specimen counts" of theft relating to £29m stolen in the late 1980s from the then FTSE 100 company he ran.

This article replaces a previous version which wrongly stated that the SFO had "decided against" pursuing the Conservative party for return of funds allegedly stolen from the Polly Peck group by Asil Nadir.

About 80% of Lagos's piped water supplies are thought to be stolen, only 5% of people receive it in their houses, taps are often dry, sanitation is non-existent across much of the metropolis and the hospitals are full of people suffering diarrheal and other water-borne diseases.

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