How to Use shoplift in a Sentence

shoplift

verb
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  • The manager saw the kids shoplift and called the police.
  • Chow thought the boy had shoplifted four bottles of water.
    — Jeffrey Collins, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • What happened to the man who shoplifted a calendar on New Year’s Eve?
    — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2019
  • He and Jose were later cited for shoplifting in Athens.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • No charges were filed against a girl for attempting to shoplift merchandise 4 p.m. Nov. 23 at the CVS store.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2021
  • In Utah in 2020, he was arrested again for shoplifting.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • In her teens, she was arrested for shoplifting and sent to reform schools.
    — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • There was no indication the man had been shoplifting, the spokesperson added.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in the city last year involved just 327 people, the police said.
    — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Kevin Brown is the officer who shot an 11-year-old girl with a stun gun in a Kroger shoplifting incident.
    — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2019
  • The shop has a full-time security guard because so many people try to shoplift.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2022
  • That was followed by a shoplifting spree at a Somerville Walgreens on a weekday morning in 2005.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Is there a general age range for people who are shoplifting at your store?
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Earlier in the month, she was accused of shoplifting more than $300 worth of items from a local Walmart.
    — Pamela Ren Larson, azcentral, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Police say the two shoplifted from a Walmart in Tempe shortly before stealing the pick-up truck.
    — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The incident was determined to be a theft by shoplifting.
    — Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2020
  • But instead of helping each other break their bad habits, the girls decide to team up and shoplift together.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 17 June 2019
  • Lessons on how to break into cars eventually progressed to how to shoplift.
    — Monroe Trombly, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The wealthy and better-educated are more likely to shoplift.
    — William Wan, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
  • On March 4, a man who tried to shoplift at Walmart was shot at by an off-duty Phoenix officer but was not injured.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But the trial judge ruled that the charges could be reclassified as shoplifting under Prop.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The victim confronted the suspect while the suspect was shoplifting.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • One answer is that if everyone were to shoplift at their pleasure, the retail system would break down.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Officers learned that four males wearing masks had allegedly shoplifted items from the store and left the scene in a white Nissan sedan.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2024
  • Despite fears, the data showed crime in the area rebounded last year to just over 2019 levels, with the greatest increase due to shoplifting.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
  • Retailers have pointed to shoplifting as a drag on profits for decades.
    — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The enhancement stems from a precedent set in the 1980s during the case of Curtis Estes, who attempted to shoplift clothing from a store in Vallejo.
    — Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Arbery was on probation at the time of the shooting after pleading guilty to attempting to shoplift a TV from a Walmart in 2017.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 13 May 2021
  • He was arrested again in 2016, during his four-year probation term, for shoplifting from a local Walmart and resisting security and was sent back to prison.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 27 June 2024
  • According to Devlin’s report, Brown was reportedly wanted on eight outstanding arrest warrants for shoplifting.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 7 June 2024

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