Example Sentences

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Watching it, I felt I was eavesdropping at a very high level.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024

By the time she was 10, she was eavesdropping on her brother's guitar lessons, before sneaking downstairs to practise the scales herself.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2022

During late August or early September, an Eastern European intelligence agency was eavesdropping on a conversation among Russians in which one said that Cohen was in Prague.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2018

Johnson’s fraud conviction capped a five-year buildup that included mountains of evidence, allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, a rejected plea deal and his claims that the government was eavesdropping on his conversations with his lawyers.

From Washington Times • Sep. 28, 2017

He had the uncomfortable feeling that he was eavesdropping on something furtive, shameful.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling