Words similar to eavesdrop

Example sentences for: eavesdrop

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

The newsweeklies all run worried, doubtful cover stories on the Kosovo war and eavesdrop on the high-level conversations behind it.
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.
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.
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.
Anyway, I'm always happy to eavesdrop on what people are saying in screening rooms or theaters--I often use that stuff in my columns, the tackier the better.