Sentence examples for steal small from inspiring English sources

Shoplifters usually steal small items, like earrings, lipstick and blouses, but they will sometimes try to take larger objects.

Certainly, she said, they must have a copy of every single key to every single lock they'd ever installed, or a magic key to all doors, and they entered people's homes to steal small items whose absence wouldn't be noticed for a while; worse, perhaps the locksmiths didn't steal anything, just took naps on beds that weren't theirs, drank out of people's favorite cups, shit in their toilets.

And the company's Barrick Gold Africa subsidiary is currently facing a lawsuit in the British High Court over whether the security forces at its Tanzanian mine used undue force when they shot and killed locals many former small scale miners put out of work by the mine when attempting to steal small amounts of ore.

For instance, women claimed that health workers over-prescribe and sometimes steal small amounts of drugs and medical items which they resell to patients, thereby undermining the policy goal of increased financial access to routine and emergency obstetric care.

Lyssa, the wife of a slaughterhouse worker and part-time dog­napper in "Steal Small," one of the collection's highlights, tries not to dwell on hardship.

To support her drinking habit, she began stealing small items from convenience stores.

Passed over for adoption because of the lost hand, Ren begins stealing small objects as recompense.

It was shuttered in March after the authorities accused a longtime technician of stealing small amounts of cocaine.

Leonid Smirnov, an engineer at the plant, stole small vials of weapons-grade uranium for months, hoping to sell it.

Local legend has it that a sinister Gypsy Man haunts the mountains, setting fires and stealing small children.

He employed her to clean his house in Reading, she said, and claimed that after catching her stealing small change he ordered her to strip naked.