like a thief in the night in a sentence

Examples

1. If there was a real concern here, why did they have to sneak in like a thief in the night?
2. The incumbent has the privilege of allowing elections to come like a thief in the night, catching them ( the opposition ) unawares,
3. Rogin wrote that Patterson backers expected him to " go inside on Liston, fire away and then run like a thief in the night.
4. "The government has been acting like a thief in the night and it merely raises more questions than it answers, " he said.
5. "It came like a thief in the night, " recalled Marinus Verburg, then-director of the area's Economic Development Institute.
6. I loaded up the car and fled like a thief in the night, and I didn't stop until I hit the oxygen-rich air of Amarillo.
7. Maddox likened the write-in to an attempt to " slip into the back door like a thief in the night " and called upon Arnall to renounce the drive.
8. :: : So once Sam's Club gets your financial details Stu, they're going to close up their 600 locations and be gone like a thief in the night?
9. Popping pills, dancing with herself, tiptoeing about like a thief in the night and recreating a sampling of those fabled rambling phone calls that Martha Mitchell made to journalists, Ivey works hard to hold her focus, and ours.
10. "Like a Thief in the Night, " blared a full-page headline in The Boston Herald, describing how Parcells had slipped away from the team after the Patriots lost the Super Bowl to the Packers on Sunday evening.