How to Use surveillance in a Sentence

surveillance

noun

• The bank robbery was recorded by surveillance video cameras.
• In my view, the urge to make the night safer should not simply mean more surveillance.
  — Jess Reia, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• The stabbing was caught on surveillance videos which show the clash that led to the victim’s death.
  — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
• The toys are in full surveillance mode for the biggest day of their year: Christmas.
  — Maggie Malach, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2022
• Mall surveillance footage showed one group with Brown and the other group with Greer.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2024
• Russell said she was held in the trailer of, checking surveillance footage at rest stops and truck stops.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• The acts of defiance were rare and rather novel, for a surveillance state.
  — Adam Rawnsley, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
• The surveillance video shows the suspect dragging the victim down the stairs before pushing him away.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The pair aboard the aircraft parachuted to the ground and were then transported to a hospital for surveillance.
  — Madeline Beck, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2023
• Police obtained store surveillance video that showed a man and a woman using the card.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Guards strapped him to a chair and placed him under running water, video surveillance showed.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Apr. 2023
• Criminals in some of the crimes captured on surveillance video wore masks.
  — Glenn Minnis | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024
• In the surveillance footage, a person pulls up in a white Hyundai next to the car that the rapper was in and shoots directly into the vehicle.
  — Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• Video surveillance inside the theater captured Mbengue chase after the teen and the tussle but not the shooting, Dale-Schmidt said.
  — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
• Our ears were numb with the constant humming of what I was told were the surveillance drones that circled constantly.
  — Irfan Galaria, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• Bags and containers are subject to search and the area is under 24-hour surveillance.
  — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
• The post included surveillance from the area that included a view of males driving away from the area after the shooting.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• Friends on the scene that day said the couple’s home was equipped with a video surveillance system, but police have not said whether that yielded any clues.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 3 Nov. 2022
• While the surveillance video does not show the SUV ramming into the storefront, the footage shows the path of destruction left by the suspect's vehicle.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Police scoured the area near the drop-off and recovered surveillance footage of the three suspects at a local bodega.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
• Workers across the country have protested the surveillance.
  — Rina Chandran, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2023
• The men walked to the back of the residence and to the carport door to avoid the surveillance cameras where Elward kicked open the carport door and Hartfield busted down the back door, the complaint said.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
• Norridge had three Flock surveillance systems up and running, and planned to install a fourth one.
  — Gary Gibula, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• But the images also have the quality of surveillance footage, which adds to the unsettling mood and sets our minds racing.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 May 2023
• Above all, the suppression of the protests depends on the tools of China’s digital surveillance state.
  — Isabel Hilton, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
• There is also a clip from a surveillance camera mounted on a pole in the neighborhood.
  — Helier Cheung, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• At the same time, police have deployed en masse to the sites of protests and hunted down activists, one by one, using the tools of the digital surveillance state.
  — Sha Hua and Josh Chin, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Two men, as seen on surveillance footage released by police, walked into the same fast-food restaurant.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• In surveillance video showing his son passed out on the casino floor, Santiago briefly glances at him before walking away, Bherwani says.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
• The battlefield will continue to be under constant surveillance by both sides.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024