Example Sentences

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If I have the timeline right, three months into your marriage, you were snooping in your husband’s phone, not to mention tracking his GPS movements.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2020

"The Revolutionary Guards naval forces seized the American boats two kilometers inside Iranian territorial waters while they were snooping around," Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said.

From Reuters • Jan. 12, 2016

Then he told people who were snooping around to mind their own business.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘I’ll fix it. I’ll lock up afterwards. And I won’t tell her you were snooping.’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

If they were snooping in his room, he was going to be really angry.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix