How to Use eavesdropping in a Sentence

eavesdropping

noun

• On our house’s deck are two Adirondack chairs, facing the lake and good for eavesdropping.
  — Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
• If eavesdropping is a concern, many smart speakers have a mute option that turns the microphone off.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 3 Nov. 2022
• So in the pair of scenes in which Beatrice and Benedick overhear their friends remarking on how much the one loves the other, and vice versa, the eavesdropping is played for outright slapstick.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• The law would have banned all wiretapping and other forms of electronic eavesdropping.
  — Andrew Lanham, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2022
• Then, this week, it was disclosed in court that the secret eavesdropping program had been declassified.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Nicholas Spellman, 21, of Wilbraham, Mass. was charged Wednesday with 13 counts of voyeurism, eavesdropping, disorderly conduct and two counts of risk of injury to a minor.
  — Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
• Khaled takes my eavesdropping as an opportunity to tell me more about his new interests.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
• Court records reveal that Judge Jinks denied most of the claims, blamed workers for misinterpreting jokes and accused employees of eavesdropping.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 4 Nov. 2021
• How to use eavesdropping to your advantage In a typical open-plan office, overhearing your coworkers can be more of an annoyance than a rush.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• Though his exit was abrupt that day, the friendship between Beethoven and Grillparzer endured the eavesdropping; Grillparzer even wrote the eulogy for Beethoven’s funeral.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2020
• Jinks denied most of the claims at trial, blamed workers for misinterpreting jokes and accused employees of eavesdropping.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 29 Nov. 2021
• But days before a hearing in November where the legality of the eavesdropping would be litigated, prosecutors agreed to drop the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2022
• But Durham's court filing doesn't allege that the pro-Clinton researchers use of internet data meant that there was any eavesdropping on content of communications.
  — Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
• As far back as 2001, U.S. intelligence was reported to have known the existence of the Chinese eavesdropping operation in Cuba.
  — Miles Yu, WSJ, 29 June 2023
• Kurson was arraigned Wednesday on the two state felonies -- eavesdropping and computer trespass -- and released on his own recognizance, according to a spokesman for the district attorney.
  — Kara Scannell, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• However, there’s no microphone built in, which will please people who worry about digital eavesdropping.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Israel’s intelligence services have long been seen as some of the most capable in the world, with an array of human intelligence, eavesdropping and other technical means blanketing the West Bank and Gaza.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2023
• Others have one-party consent, meaning only one party must consent, and that allows one person to record a conversation without fear of eavesdropping charges.
  — cleveland, 11 May 2022
• This material may come from allies or informants, or from spying or eavesdropping.
  — Will Steakin, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2022
• Sixty percent of those surveyed believe the eavesdropping extends to government tracking.
  — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2023
• But its interstellar eavesdropping has yet to detect any signals that withstand close scrutiny.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2015
• The company’s electronic eavesdropping satellites enable collection of intelligence that seems to defy the laws of physics.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• China and Cuba already jointly run four eavesdropping stations on the island, according to U.S. officials.
  — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 20 June 2023
• However, the court stated that Gunnigle and the other two prosecutors were not entitled to absolute immunity for the eavesdropping case.
  — Lauren Castle, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2020
• Earlier this month, the Journal reported that China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019 and that the two countries jointly maintain four additional eavesdropping stations on the island.
  — WIRED, 24 June 2023
• Off camera, in a room next door, there are several investigators and behavioral analysts from the FBI listening in with eavesdropping equipment.
  — Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• As part of Kurson's plea deal, prosecutors reduced his original felony charges of eavesdropping and computer trespass to misdemeanor attempt charges.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2022
• Something like a Faraday cage, the refrigerator would prevent eavesdropping.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2022
• Kuhns, Rodriguez and another team official sit at monitors too, watching the action and eavesdropping on team conversations.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• While that will hardly surprise officials of those countries, making such eavesdropping public always hampers relations with key partners, such as South Korea, whose help is needed to supply Ukraine with weaponry.
  — Helene Cooper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024