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.

  • They exploit themselves, by depriving themselves of that private life so essential to a modern liberal society, and at the same time they exploit the casual passerby by forcing that person to eavesdrop and act as audience.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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