Sentence examples for were purloined from inspiring English sources

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were purloined

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To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.

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He is believed to be the only employee who had physical access to the 1933 double eagles that were purloined.

When his letters to her were purloined by her then-husband, it isn't pillow talk but spiteful remarks about the Bishop of Exeter he fears will be leaked.

Then followed the Dissolution of the Monasteries, under which all the lands and possessions of Britain's religious orders were purloined by the king and his apparatchiks.

The allegations arose after private e-mail messages between Dr. Mann and other scientists were purloined from a computer at the University of East Anglia, in Britain, and posted on the Internet.

Embarrassing e-mail messages sent by Dr. Jones and other scientists were purloined from a computer at the university in November and posted to the Internet, prompting a round of accusations.

One has had the sense, since his testimony skated past the truth on his involvement with Charles Pickering and on his awareness that documents he received were purloined, that his heart is that of a conservative partisan, one who tried so very hard to make himself into Supreme Court material.

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Technology has been purloined and stolen from abroad.

His household had been violated; his family's privacy, like a letter, had been purloined.

Painted with watercolors, they could have been purloined from a reliquary.

Several of the baseball stories she has recounted on television also appear to have been purloined.

No late-night advertorials sell locking clubs to prevent wheel patterns from being purloined.

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