STOLE in a Sentence

Learn STOLE from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For STOLE, below is one of 112 sentences:
Impotent rage quelled what little fear was left in her heart as she stood helpless while they plundered and stole and ruined.

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 Meanings and Examples of STOLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stole
 n.  a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women
 v.  (path tense) take another's stuff without permission, and don't want to return it
Classic Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  For the first time he stole his arm about her, and she did not resist.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Some day I'll tell you with embellishments just where and how I stole him and how narrowly I missed getting shot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  They stole the wagons and the mules.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  They're off the main road, like we are, but they did get to the Calverts and they stole all their stock and poultry and got all the darkies to run off with them-- Sally began.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  Impotent rage quelled what little fear was left in her heart as she stood helpless while they plundered and stole and ruined.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  And when the pleasant familiar warmth stole through her veins, her troubles began to fade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  Scarlett stole glances at her companions and intercepted a look from India.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  "Fiddle-dee-dee, Melly, what a tempest you make in a teapot," said Scarlett grudgingly, but she did not throw off the hand that stole around her waist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
9  Enemies leered through the windows, stole on her from the hall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  I confess, that once I stole behind the foremast to try it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
11  Nevertheless, I stole furtive glances behind me now and then to see that no avenging mate, older and bigger than my quarry, was racing up from the rear.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
12  When I stole into the parlour, Anson Kirkpatrick, Marshall Field's man, was at the piano, playing airs from a musical comedy then running in Chicago.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
13  No one paid the least attention to her, and when she was through she stole back and sat down by her brother.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
14  The charm of Edna Pontellier's physique stole insensibly upon you.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  The packers had secret mains, through which they stole billions of gallons of the city's water.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  He stole away without anyone seeing him.
2  He rugby tackled her and stole her bag.
3  The thieves broke into the bank and stole the safe.
4  His father threatened to beat the boy if he stole again.
5  Somebody broke in last night and stole the PC and video.
6  A police clampdown on car thieves hit a snag when villains stole one of their cars.
7  Someone stole my credit card and forged my signature.
8  A small party stole up on the bridge under cover of darkness.
9  A lonely feeling stole over me.
10  Robin Hood was an outlaw who lived in the forest and stole from the rich to give to the poor.
11  It has been alleged that Jack stole the money.
12  This is proof positive that he stole the money.
13  Such was her obsession for collecting any memorabilia of her heart throb, that she stole about a million dollars from her employer, North Kesteven District Council, to fund her habit.
14  One would think that with all the money he stole he would buy a toupee that looks real!
15  When Jean Valjean stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister, he committed a venial offense.