After the shoplifter has taken one or more articles she joins her confederate, and unobserved passes the articles to the confederate.
The shoplifter rarely will bother with cheap merchandise, but will confine her thefts to valuable laces, silks, furs, jewelry, etc.
The detective, as a rule, should not make an arrest under any circumstances until after the shoplifter has left the store.
Very often a professional shoplifter will take with her to a store a confederate, especially if she has reason to believe that her operations have aroused the suspicions of any of the store's detectives.
After becoming satisfied on this point the shoplifter figures on how best to avoid the persons he or she have picked out as being detectives, then will begin to operate.
Usually when a shoplifter decides upon some particular store to operate in, he or she may first visit the store a dozen times if necessary in order to pick out the store detective.
Of course, when we make an arrest on the sidewalk, we bring the shoplifter back, but in a private, back elevator.
By this time the other store detectives must have caught the shoplifter and bag-opener who touched you.
I thought that perhaps we could discover this particular shoplifter by ordinary means, that perhaps some of the clerks in the jewellery department might be able to identify her.
A shoplifter rarely becomes a habitual criminal until after she passes the age of twenty-five.
No shoplifter in her senses was likely to lift the great Kimberley Queen gem with the eagle eyes of clerks and detectives on her, even if she did not discover that it was only a paste jewel.
She sat exceedingly erect and seemed to be cold and haughty till another splurge of slang from the shoplifter provoked her to a laugh that was like a child's.
The little shoplifter and blackmailer on the stage was describing her efforts to learn the ways of society, the technique of pouring tea and pretending to like it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoplifter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
