Sentence examples for nicked from from inspiring English sources
"They are actually rocks nicked from the Tiber.
*The worst thing about this joke is that it's nicked from Jools Holland.
Flags are waving – pirates, Welsh, Italian – and someone's waving a Sale sign nicked from a shop.
"He'd do a long shift and get nicked from the shellfish, and the bacteria would get inside the cuts.
There would invariably be a card from Clintons, daffs nicked from the garden, rock-hard eggs and ragged soldiers.
"I wanted to make the landscape a real character which is frankly just nicked from Thomas Hardy," said Chibnall.
Frankenstein and Igor succeed in making a human-chimp hybrid from body parts nicked from cemeteries and the zoo.
Exactly this fate befalls our young Saxon protagonist Uhtred when he is nicked from his home by the rampant Ragnar.
The hat in question, a pistachio-coloured bowler, appears on the head of a small fish – nicked from a bigger fish who was asleep at the time.
And then there are those irritating people (OK, me) who think food tastes better when nicked from a loved one's plate.
They enjoy watching the Pingu DVD they nicked from under your niece's Christmas tree (the one in which Pingu steals some sweets, gets grounded and learns his lesson).
