Sentence examples for peculate from inspiring English sources

We can steal a pace or grab some space, smuggle secrets, rustle sheep, kidnap, snaffle, hustle, embezzle, pluck, plunder, peculate or appropriate.

(To peculate is to embezzle).

Other stones acquire salts from the environment, such as during burial, when they are exposed to groundwater laden with salt, or when they are exposed to water that has peculated through natural or man-made material (such as gypsum or cement) that also contains large amounts of salt.