plural thieves
ˈthēvz 
: one that steals especially stealthily or secretly
also
: one who commits theft or larceny
Examples of thief in a Sentence
A thief took my purse.
a thief has been stealing wallets and valuables from the lockers at the gym
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The thieves check the balance when a customer purchases a card and loads funds onto it, then drain the card of funds before the customer can use it, officials said.
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Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Dec. 2025
Workers install metal security bars over the window where thieves broke into the Louvre museum in October.
—CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
No one knows why; no one has a telephone in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains, so John Boy sets out into a winter storm to find his daddy, having various escapades with the quirky residents of their backwoods community—a Black preacher, a pair of old-lady bootleggers, a turkey thief—along the way.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Watch Champagne Problems on Netflix Jingle Bell Heist Two budding thieves — Sophia (Olivia Holt) and Nick (Connor Swindells) — team up to rob a big London department store on Christmas Eve.
—Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
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Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Dec. 2025
Workers install metal security bars over the window where thieves broke into the Louvre museum in October.
—CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
No one knows why; no one has a telephone in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains, so John Boy sets out into a winter storm to find his daddy, having various escapades with the quirky residents of their backwoods community—a Black preacher, a pair of old-lady bootleggers, a turkey thief—along the way.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Watch Champagne Problems on Netflix Jingle Bell Heist Two budding thieves — Sophia (Olivia Holt) and Nick (Connor Swindells) — team up to rob a big London department store on Christmas Eve.
—Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for thief
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“Thief.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thief. Accessed 29 Dec. 2025.
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