What's the difference between mitch and pilfer?

Mitch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She expressed her condolences to Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janis, who did not attend the inquest, marking the loss of "a talented woman at such a young age".
  • (2) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
  • (3) Earlier this primary season, Tea Party-aligned candidates lost a series of high-profile battles, including in Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky, where there was a failed attempt to overthrow the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell.
  • (4) "A couple of years into Obama's first term, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said: our priority, as the Republican party, is to make sure Obama is a one-term president .
  • (5) "This has electrified the country," said the Republican senate leader Mitch ­McConnell, of Kentucky.
  • (6) Kickstarting what is expected to be a concerted effort to undermine the accord over the next two months, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, accused the White House of “reaching the best deal acceptable to Iran, rather than actually advancing our national goal”.
  • (7) McConnell v Federal Election Commission, 2003 Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell and others challenged the McCain-Feingold legislation in 2003 in the supreme court.
  • (8) Senators Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell worked through the weekend to find a way to raise the debt ceiling and re-open government.
  • (9) Both developments represent a remarkable capitulation for the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who had initially sought to simply extend the Patriot Act provisions, despite overwhelming support in the House of Representatives for the USA Freedom Act.
  • (10) Let’s say Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell strike a deal today ( that’s looking unlikely ).
  • (11) His regular punching bags get patented nicknames: Lindsey Graham is “goober”, John McCain is “John McPain”, and he once called Mitch McConnell “ The Benedict Arnold of the US Senate ”.
  • (12) The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, attempted to reconcile the competing tensions on Wednesday by portraying the bill not so much as one aimed at trying to prevent another Wall Street crisis as opening the way for what he said would be an endless round of the hated bank bailouts.
  • (13) Introducing the bill on Wednesday, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said: “This bill will ensure that taxpayer dollars that are supposed to be spent on women’s health are, in fact, spent on women’s health.” Planned Parenthood, which points out that abortions represent only a fraction of the healthcare services it provides to women nationwide, says that of $1.3bn in revenue last year, $528m came from taxpayers, including state funds that help finance Medicaid.
  • (14) "When Fred Perry came to us to ask what we would like to do with the new collection, it was natural to continue," said the singer's father Mitch Winehouse.
  • (15) We could do with a little less drama from the White House,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said.
  • (16) Mitch McConnell, the Republicans’ leader in the Senate ran on a slogan of “Guns, Freedom and Coal”.
  • (17) In a functional party the Republican Speaker, John Boehner, would work out what changes he could make to the bill to give the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, a fighting chance of getting the requisite majority to pass legislation they could both take credit for.
  • (18) Mitch Fifield, the assistant minister for social services, told the paper: “It’s important, as the legislated expiry dates of board appointments approach, to make sure we have into the future the best mix of skills and experience from current and new members for a venture of this magnitude and importance.” The ads seek previous corporate experience and work in disability services.
  • (19) Most of the fish are fresh off the boat from round the bay in Brixham, although the crab and lobster comes from Dartmouth and the salmon is home-smoked by Mitch.
  • (20) Updated at 8.23am BST 7.42am BST Default fears get Senate leaders moving Senate majority leader Harry Reid fuelled hopes of a deal last night when he told reporters that he and minority leader Mitch McConnell had made "tremendous progress" towards a deal.

Pilfer


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
  • (v. t.) To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
  • (2) Bavarian public gardens are regularly pilfered for their hydrangea flowers.
  • (3) Harry Kane’s third goal in four caps was crisply pilfered 10 minutes into his cameo.
  • (4) BITS AND BOBS A Colombian teacher has been accused of pilfering stickers from pupils to complete his own Panini World Cup album.
  • (5) Among the things she pilfered were a pair of white trainers belonging to Kelly.
  • (6) Once on a system, it would detect when a user was visiting a banking website, create fake login sections of that site and then pilfer banking logins.
  • (7) Gyles commission into productivity in the building industry in New South Wales In 1992 Roger Gyles QC described illegal activities in the NSW building industry, ranging from physical violence and a threat of physical violence at one end to petty pilfering of building materials at the other.
  • (8) Habré escaped, eventually to Senegal , with some $12m pilfered from national bank accounts, which he reportedly put towards the purchase of two mansions and, it is widely believed, enough Senegalese newspaper editors, police officials, religious leaders and politicians to keep the heat off for years to come.
  • (9) The significant weapons stockpiles, largely unguarded and unwatched, from which arms could easily be pilfered, provide the temptations of war for anyone who may see Gaddafi's overthrow as an opportunity to advance their agendas in non-democratic ways.
  • (10) The equaliser was pilfered on the break, Adebayor sending Roberto Soldado scurrying down the left, where he collected and conjured a glorious centre, which arced into the six-yard box for the Togolese to exploit space between Jos Hooiveld and Fox and volley home.
  • (11) There were "small incidents" with Roma accused of pilfering firewood or vegetables and other petty crime, but only 12 "petty larcenies" were reported to police during the first four months of 2011.
  • (12) Paglia accuses Gaga of stealing from Madonna, but Madge pilfered sounds and imagery from everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Daft Punk .
  • (13) Last week's episode of Midsomer Murders featured a grasping son and daughter pilfering money from their mother and bumping off their stepfather to disguise the crime.
  • (14) But there are also distinctions in the lower classes: the tension between the country servants, who feel part of a centuries-old tradition of duty, and the town servants, who see the ruling class as opponents to outwit in small victories of pilfering.
  • (15) Belgian monks hide their altarpieces, a swastika flag flutters in front of the Eiffel Tower, and Adolf Hitler is pilfering art from all over Europe to build a collection for his planned Führermuseum .
  • (16) A couple of weeks ago they were on the receiving end of an injustice here when Tottenham Hotspur pilfered a late winner.
  • (17) "Luxembourg is like the club member who enjoys all the benefits of membership while quietly pilfering from the kitty" Richard Brooks “It might be an underhand way to run a tax system, but it serves Luxembourg well.
  • (18) The granaries were pilfered with no account of why the stores were empty.
  • (19) It's ubiquitous at our tables, with dishes pilfered from all corners of the world – from creamy risottos to perfumed pilafs and paellas, sushi rolls and kedgeree – not to mention all manner of polystyrene-like crackers, cereals and "cakes".
  • (20) They allege that his holdings, including a luxurious seven-storey townhouse on one of Paris's most expensive streets and several dozen others apartments, must have been amassed by pilfering Syrian public funds and abusing power.