"thief" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These days, thieves are also stripping buildings of their paneling, plasterwork, ironwork, statuary, window shutters, doorknobs, doorcases and even entire staircases.
- Other thieves, many of them corrupt Kurdish officials, are stripping the economy of everything that can be carted over the frontier to Iran and sold, from bulldozers to electrical wire.
- The Dixons and 14 employees were herded into money storage cages and held at gunpoint as the thieves stripped the depot of cash.
- But within two months, thieves stripped the garden of most of its azaleas, rhododendrons and trees.
- "Not to mention trivia like Courter Slauce getting himself killed on his way down to see me last night, or the fact that thieves have stripped the daPena warehouse."
- Neither Mr. Cronin nor the F.B.I. would comment on how the thieves stripped the paintings from the mueuem's walls or how they transported them after leaving.
- "I had my peanut cooker and my icy machine, and the thieves would have stripped all that for sure," he said.
- Two thieves have stripped a Paris auction house of a painting by the French Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir valued at $260,000.
- The most startling example of the Chief's insights and influence came earlier this year, when a woman reported that thieves were stripping aluminum siding off her boathouse.
- One night in Brooklyn, after thieves stripped an abandoned Bushwick building of its copper plumbing, everybody on the block began piling their belongings in cars, fleeing in anticipation of a fire.
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