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How to use light-fingered in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word light-fingered? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
In America, light-fingered employees are a bigger problem than thieving shoppers.
Attractive product ranges don't just please honest customers, they also tempt light-fingered people to help themselves.
Handbags, mobile phones on tables, coats on backs of chairs are all easy pickings for light-fingered thieves.
But who, we wondered, was the light-fingered adventurer who brought them back so finely preserved?
Mr. Mtukuzdi and his band, the Black Spirits, have perfected a family of light-fingered grooves.
Some retailers think that if they report light-fingered staff to police instead of simply firing them, they inflame the situation and increase the risk of later legal action.
Not every light-fingered American veteran has been so penitent.
Our light-fingered fig climber commits acts of larceny while the crumb-laden colossus eats his weight in skunk soup and then falls into narcolepsy.
Gentleman Johnny's Huey, Dewey and Louie are the next highest cards visible. The three twos look puny against light-fingered Tucker's kings, but Johnny's still in the pot.
Recently, one of the light-fingered drag queens performed a routine at Blu in which he removed the clothes of a fellow drag queen to reveal a prison jumpsuit underneath.
Examples from Classical Literature
These Indians are a light-fingered set, take them all in all, and Jasper Williams says he never would trust one out of his sight.
As has been stated, they constitute the bulk of the light-fingered p. 530fraternity.
Fork over that coin you lifted from me in the Elk, you light-fingered hound!
It is not given to all men to be light-brained, light-limbed, light-fingered.
I saw that he no longer contemplated a duel with his light-fingered adversary.
Well, so you landed your light-fingered friend, did you, laddie?
An he's more light-fingered than his predecessor, he's a master of prestidigitation!
Unfortunately for the light-fingered defender his actions had been spotted by the TV cameras and he was caught red-handed.
The supermarket is increasing security amid concern light-fingered fans will try to make off with Lord of the Rings promotional material.
It urged businesses to look out for light-fingered shoppers who will be hoping to make off with stolen goods.
He then discovered the light-fingered culprits had undertaken the first stages of starting the engine.
He made me light-fingered, and gave me a chance to help myself.
And amazingly light-fingered thieves have even stolen three police bikes.
But Nestle did reward the light-fingered, who were secretly filmed.
Then we have the light-fingered Invisible Man, and Dorian Gray who is immortal for as long as he doesn't peep at the portrait of himself in the attic.
Fortunately, a light-fingered pickpocket is on hand to embark on a perilous quest through a world of magic to break the bewitchment.
However, in the real world there are gangs of light-fingered lowlifes who rely on cunning, the power of misdirection and teamwork to relieve hard-working folks of their cash.
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