Sentence examples for thief figures from inspiring English sources

This is in case the thief figures out how to access your account through another hand set, or in case the carrier is unwilling to block the handset.

We're still not sure how it happened, but as I chatted with a friend and ate chicken curry, a clever thief figured out a way to pop the trunk of my car from the outside and made away with my prized Powerbook and my lovely Bill Blass bag.

Even the dimmest thief could figure that out.

Mr. Melville had wanted to direct "Rififi," but in retrospect it was a stroke of luck that he wasn't hired and had to settle for "Bob le Flambeur" — by the same writer, Auguste Le Breton — because the thief-gambler figure is so resonant both for the genre and for this director's own idiosyncratic temperament.

Somebody unlocks the shop and enters, pursued by a thief — a heavyset figure in a motorcycle helmet, whom we see only fitfully in the half-light.

In a grating public embarrassment, the statue outside the institute was defaced in April: Someone spray-painted the word "thief" on the figure of Scrushy.

The thief is again a pathetic figure in as desperate a position as the hero.

All a thief needs to do is figure out which wire is the starter.

It took the institute a number of years to figure out who the thief was.

Over a period of years — Schreiber stole at judicious intervals — he took about five thousand dollars.. It took the institute a number of years to figure out who the thief was.

Worse, even if the victim or the credit-card companies figure out that an identity thief has taken out an illegal card or loan, and cancel the fraudulent account, the identity thief is rarely apprehended.