Example sentences for: eavesdropping

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

  • You feel as if you are eavesdropping on some strangers' e-mail exchange rather than witnessing a wake.

  • USAT , the WP , and LAT front (while the NYT stuffs) the fascinating spy story unfolding in Washington, where the day before yesterday it was announced that a career Russian intelligence officer was sent packing after being caught engaging in an eavesdropping operation against the State Department.

  • The LAT runs a front-page story on the matter that says the government denies that it ever placed spies on the UNSCOM staff, although the story also says the take of the eavesdropping operation almost certainly helped the Pentagon plan last month's bombing campaign.

  • This strangely satisfying form of literary eavesdropping, achieved by a simple re-sorting of customers' e-mail domain names, shipping addresses, and purchases, is not limited to the continental United States.

  • By eavesdropping on this communication, scientists have recently obtained a unique perspective into the perceptual world of insects.


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