snoop
verb (used without object)
to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
had been snooping
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past perfect progressiveof snoop.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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I have a close friend who has been doing something wrong: She had been snooping on her husband’s online activities and history without him knowing.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2021
The Information reported that Jesus Echezarreta’s ex told him he needed to walk the dog more often—because the ex had been snooping on the doorbell app’s video stream.
From Slate ● May 15, 2018
He had been snooping around his parents' bedroom when he came across his adoption papers in a holdall.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2017
Once, he ordered digging to stop because of “eyes on the north side”—someone had been snooping around one of his warehouses in Otay Mesa.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2015
I quickly closed the drawers, so Grandma wouldn’t know I had been snooping around, and tiptoed to the front door, because I was afraid that maybe what I had heard was a burglar.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
