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Example sentences for: eavesdrop

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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.
The newsweeklies all run worried, doubtful cover stories on the Kosovo war and eavesdrop on the high-level conversations behind it.
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.
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.
I eavesdrop as Donaldson and Thomas corner the deputy press secretary.