snoop
verb (used without object)
to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
are snooping
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present progressiveof snoop.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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This January, someone in England detected it working and wrote on Twitter, “Care to tell me why you are snooping my I.P. address?”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
Soon the sisters are snooping after their father, whom they suspect of having an affair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2017
In 2014, they stopped allowing for anonymous searches: Whoever you are snooping on can now tell that you are doing so.
From US News ● Oct. 8, 2015
Also reports that New Deal investigators are snooping into the finances of their machine, are not reassuring to the McNutters, even though old friend Frank Murphy is Attorney General.
From Time Magazine Archive
A pair of patrolmen are snooping along the west wall and the northwest gate is doubly guarded.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
