Example Sentences

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While snooping around the app a few weeks ago, I noticed a friend of mine had logged a film I’d never heard of, a little Tubi Original called “Hag.”

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Isn’t the whole uproar over Mr. Smith’s snooping on senators’ phone records a “tempest and teapot” given he had to follow rules?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

And for bears that keep snooping around houses or livestock, there are ways of hazing that don’t involve dogs chasing them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2025

One of my aunts recently saw the paperwork on my desk and started snooping.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2024

“Miss Lumley. Your snooping or mail delivering or whatever it was seems to have been a bit of bad luck, for both of us. Now my little secret is out.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood