Example Sentences

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For the first time, scientists have eavesdropped year-round on the songs of bowhead whales, the little-heard whales that roam the Arctic under the ice.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2018

BST05:55 I do wish I could have eavesdropped the moment when George Osborne chatted with Austria’s finance minister.

From The Guardian • May 12, 2015

I have eavesdropped on grad students presenting dissertations about the subtext of neocolonialism in my writing. 

From Scientific American • Apr. 25, 2013

He did not deny that Smyth was his lover but insisted that she was never his patient and added that she could not have eavesdropped on any confessions because of the layout of his office.

From Time Magazine Archive

No station up there is near enough to have eavesdropped upon our capture, but the whole thing must have come out by now.

From Tarrano the Conqueror by Cummings, Ray