Sentence examples for were swiped from inspiring English sources
verb
To steal or snatch.
- Hey! Who swiped my lunch?
On Thursday, Brooklyn's shooting legs were swiped from under them.
Earlier this week, a "leading extra-marital affairs website" was hacked and the details of an alleged 37 million customers were swiped.
The works were part of a batch of a half dozen contemporary paintings that were swiped from the now-defunct Solomon Gallery during a weekend theft.
Back at the McAllen airport the next day, a Transportation Security Administration agent searched my carry-on, evidently suspicious of my binoculars, which were swiped, peered through and run again through the X-ray machine.
Last October, seven works of art were swiped from the Kunsthal museum, in Rotterdam: Picasso and Matisse, again, plus two Monets, a Gauguin, a Meyer de Haan, and a Lucian Freud.
Ronny Kienhuis said his "black dress shorts" were swiped and added: "What on earth does someone want with some $25 L.L. Bean black khaki shorts?" Evidently there is a demand for men's shorts.
Everywhere you go, people were swiping left and right, looking down at their phones and not saying hello.
Paul Badami's Ping golf wedge was swiped.
No Visa card has been swiped there in three years.
Instead the golden springboard was swiped from under their feet.
"Every time a card was swiped, it would be logged into our file," Toey says.
