Sentence examples for picking your pocket from inspiring English sources

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It's merely the equivalent of someone keeping up politically correct chitchat while picking your pocket.

Like a thief who shakes your hand while picking your pocket, he puts the focus on anything but the crime.

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While cigarettes may be dangerous to your health, economic forecasts may pick your pocket.

Ben Macintyre says he could look you "straight in the eye" while he picked your pocket.

"They would pick your pocket as a joke and then give you your wallet back," he said, laughing.

But yes, if someone picks your pocket in a crowd, it's no different from any other act of that kind, in another situation.

"In Russia, the fascists want to kill you, the communists want to starve you, and the democrats want to pick your pocket for a while," Mr. Caputo said.

The Faustian bargain of the digital news ecosystem suggests that people get to pick your pocket a bit and then send back traffic in return.

Hard times, Leonard L. Gordon said, have created "a target-rich environment for scammers" who are all too eager to pick your pocket and even steal your identity.

The Post's article described the guide on the $45-a-ticket 45-a-ticket 45-a-ticketointour out St. Mary's Park in the South Bronx to her audience of mainLynn Battagliaeans and Australians and advising them, if they entered it, to "walk with a New Yorker" because even though it had been cleaned upointinge soutone would pick your pocket" there.

In Atlantic City, the idea was to slather on as much ornamentation as possible, the goal being (a) to titillate with the fantasy that a Trump-like life was a lifelike life and (b) to distract from the fact that he'd lured you inside to pick your pocket.

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