stole
IPA: stˈoʊɫ
noun
- A garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck, each end hanging over the chest, worn in ecclesiastical settings or sometimes as a part of graduation dress.
- A scarf-like garment, often made of fur.
- (botany) A stolon.
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Examples of "stole" in Sentences
- The only thought that comes to mind, is hold all those accountable who stole from the tax payers.
- Spain stole my heart so much that I lived there twice and the second time almost ended up being indefinite.
- Police say an armed robber gave back everything he stole from a homeless man after learning he lives at a shelter.
- And a week ago, a judge ordered the same punishment for a man who stole from a candy shop, though that ruling can still be appealed.
- But I don't like the Bidwells, or the fact that the Cardinals still refuse to give up the championship they stole from the Pottsville Maroons.
- In point of fact, the broad "stole" is really not a stole at all then, but is worn over the stole proper of the deacon -- similar to how it was wound up with it before.
- One day, finding I had no paper to draw on, I stole from the attic a stack of exquisite flower-drawings, almost certainly by Ruskin himself, and proceeded to rub them out.
- DARLINGTON, S.C. During a weekend when many of NASCAR's greatest drivers couldn't tame the toughest track on the Sprint Cup circuit, Denny Hamlin stole the show with a sweep.
- At least James Cameron was nice enough to put a giant windshield on the awesome Mechwarrior/Battletech suits that he stole from the baseball card company, Topps (originally the concept of the game company FASA created in 1986).
- He stole from the Federal Government, at a prodigal increase of salary, its star specialist in livestock breeding, and by similar misconduct he robbed the University of Nebraska of its greatest milch cow professor, and broke the heart of the Dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of California by appropriating Professor Nirdenhammer, the wizard of farm management.
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