Example sentences for: eavesdrop

How can you use “eavesdrop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WP fronts an interesting story on a joint U.S.-Chinese secret electronic surveillance system established in 1995 along the China-Burma border to eavesdrop on narcotics traffickers.

  • I eavesdrop as Donaldson and Thomas corner the deputy press secretary.

  • The newsweeklies all run worried, doubtful cover stories on the Kosovo war and eavesdrop on the high-level conversations behind it.

  • Whether or not they find anything, they will eventually get into half-blues civilian jacket over job shirt and trousers and go off to the pub for a well-earned pint; and if you eavesdrop on their conversation, since policemen always talk shop, you will undoubtedly overhear some of the expressions you have been introduced to here.

  • Yet, as you eavesdrop on him in recordings he left for posterity, like Dorothy peeking behind the screen at the Wizard, you find not a giant but a fearful and uncertain man with a very big voice.


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