Example sentences for: spying

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

  • Alexander Feklisov says 1) that Rosenberg passed U.S. military secrets to the Russians but 2) supplied no useful information about the atomic bomb, contrary to the assertions of J. Edgar Hoover, and 3) that Ethel Rosenberg, who was executed along with her husband, did no spying for Feklisov.

  • The girl he was spying on is the runaway niece of the elderly widow, "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal), he works for.

  • The paper quoted a former head of the Russian communications ministry, Aleksander Ivanov, as blaming the scare on Western intelligence services whose "crafty plan" was to install new computers with spying facilities in Russian government institutions.

  • The two Times stories agree that the FBI's China spying do-over means that its original effort, focusing on one scientist (Wen Ho Lee) at one lab (Los Alamos), was inadequate.

  • This exposé of American submarine espionage is "an evocative and important look at the cold war," says Timothy Naftali in the New York Times Book Review . Told with the color and pacing of a spy novel, the book is full of firsthand accounts from the men who served on the underwater spying missions, though critics complain that the writers--a former New York Times reporter and a current one--are insufficiently skeptical about inflated claims to heroism.


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