Example sentences for: espionage

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

  • In the absence of other federal law enforcement agencies--there was no FBI until 1908--the service over time took on new jobs: combating the terrorist acts of the Ku Klux Klan, which had sprung up in the Reconstruction South; conducting espionage during the Spanish-American War and World War I; investigating the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal; and helping to apprehend the gangster Al Capone for tax fraud.

  • Germany told the United States it would expel an American spy . Initial reports indicated the Germans were angry because the agent was conducting economic espionage against Germany.

  • The NYT gives above-the-fold treatment to allegations by the former counterintelligence director of Los Alamos that the espionage investigation of Wen Ho Lee is racist.

  • In his telling, as in Chambers', Roosevelt, Truman, and American liberals in general "willfully" refused to mount a full-scale espionage operation against the Russians in the war years (when the two nations were allies).

  • Bobby Brown, the Israeli prime minister's adviser on Diaspora affairs, will release the names during the State Department's Holocaust era restitution conference starting in Washington Sunday, the paper said, adding that the list will include the Vatican, the Czech Republic, the KGB, and Britain's MI-5 espionage service.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast