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Example sentences for "steals"

Lexicographically close words:
stealers; steales; stealeth; stealing; stealings; stealth; stealthily; stealths; stealthy; steam
  1. He who steals another's heart, Let him give his own heart too: Who's the robber?

  2. Anyone who feloniously steals or aids in the stealing of goods, wares, or merchandise over 5s.

  3. Their discontent was expressed in this poem: "They hang the man and flog the woman That steals a goose from off the common But leave the greater criminal loose That steals the common from the goose.

  4. Anyone who steals at night any cloth or wool or woolen goods set out to dry on racks shall forfeit treble damages, or if he can't pay, be sent to prison for three months without bail.

  5. If a man steals goods to the value of 12d.

  6. If one steals a hawk from a lord or conceals from him the fact that it has been found, he shall pay the price of the hawk and be imprisoned for two years.

  7. He who steals a sheep cannot be cast out from a church in which he who steals men occupies a high seat.

  8. You know, Mag, every bit of recognition an actress steals from the world is so much capital.

  9. The blushing youth steals in at twilight to receive from him his doom; and to him is first known the results of a village belle's foray through a neighboring district.

  10. Every time I steals up to yer house, I thinks yer woman'll see me; and yer Pappy and Mammy comes home to-morry.

  11. The late sunlight sifted through the drawn curtains and touched the flowers; their exquisite odor crept through the stillness of the room as the sweet memory of an old song steals through the silent chambers of the heart.

  12. If any one steals the hide, we'll have to stand it.

  13. He comes here and steals a sick boy, and then has the nerve to return and claim the cabin!

  14. Any man who steals another man's invention, or tries to steal it, will go to almost any length to protect the thing he has stolen.

  15. Here there are one or two sheds, in which all the villagers store their grain in common, and no man steals another's grain.

  16. The gentle calm that like a whispered song Steals o'er the sense with sweetest languishment?

  17. In such an hour peace steals upon the soul, Like the soft twilight o'er the toiling world; There is no room for passion--strife would blush As at the chiding of a gentle glance.

  18. Soft through the lattice steals a gentle voice, Breathing his name in accents faint and weak, Tones that in past days made his soul rejoice, And now send crimson currents to his cheek.

  19. Hymn'd by the panting lark to the young day, Joyous and loving as the sunny beam That greets the early primrose, when the dream Of flowery revels through the noontide hours First steals upon it.

  20. When the weapon was at his side, he said: "The Sauk is a wolf; he steals behind the hunter that he may leap on his shoulders when he sleeps; but the hunter heard the sound of his claws on the leaves and turned upon him.

  21. He will be like some subtle elixir which, taken into the lips, steals through a pallid and wasted frame, and brings back a glow to the cheek and a lustre to the eye, and swiftness to the brain, and power to the whole nature.

  22. The varied noises of the cheerful village By slow degrees now faintly die away, And more distinct each feeble sound is heard That gently steals ad own the river's bed, Or thro' the wood comes with the ruffling breeze.

  23. A voice, like the evening breeze when it steals down the bed of the river, Came softly and sad to his ear, and he raised his drooping head.

  24. Now, ere the unthinking silence on that strife Steals down, I would cheat drowsy Death so far, My night shall be remembered for a star That outshone all the suns of all men's days.

  25. Goneril: Your graceful consort steals from us too soon: Will you not tell her that she should remain-- If she can trust the faith you keep with a queen?

  26. Here, in a mythical tale, the same mischief maker steals a snake-girl's hair, and is compelled to replace it.

  27. In the Edda, the corresponding mischief maker steals the hair of a goddess, and is also forced to make restitution.

  28. For this reason the big events of life are rarely announced beforehand, but when least looked for, the thing we have vainly sought, steals quietly into our possession.

  29. Their very memory is a blessing unto this day, for often, when I am heart and brain weary, it steals upon me, swift and sweet and sure as a vision.

  30. MIME [Steals forward, and observes Siegfried from the foreground.

  31. Mime steals up, looking about him timidly to assure himself of Fafner's death.

  32. And sure 'nough, I goes and steals inter my lordship's dressing room, unbeknown to anybody, and I hides myself ahind one ob dem thick curtains!

  33. An intriguing woman (or man) who steals into a happy home and seeks to undermine it, deserves to be stoned on the highway.

  34. See, again, where the step steals through the ruins and along the desolate court.

  35. A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.

  36. A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.

  37. Read it, Madge, two lines at a time, and we will sing it to the tune of "What fairylike music steals over the sea.

  38. What fairylike music steals over the sea, Entrancing the senses with charm'd melody?


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.