Example sentences for: voyeuristic

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

  • Reading the letters of someone whose accomplishments you admire is voyeuristic in the best sense (as opposed to reading a stranger's mail, which is a peep-show).

  • They aren't thinking or trying to come to grips with their situations in front of your eyes, because they already know what they're going to say: They've been fixed like butterflies on the ends of pins and held up for voyeuristic inspection.

  • Same with rap: For all it's hailed as the voice of the urban poor, 70 percent of its sales are to suburban whites, for whom Public Enemy's "911 is a Joke" or Niggaz Wit' Attitude's "Fuck tha Police" offer the delicious, voyeuristic frisson of life in Compton or the South Bronx without actually having to live there.

  • But Monica is road kill here, and Walters the latest in a series of hit-and-run drivers, and there is something sickening about the way we have watched this woman be knocked down again and again and again, yet still feel the need to vilify the object of our voyeuristic pleasure.

  • Four years later, he found himself a victim of the sort of voyeuristic, nasty snooping that the law authorizes.


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