How to Use eavesdrop in a Sentence

eavesdrop

verb
  • But does that mean your dog is picking up new words by eavesdropping?
    — Liz Regalia, Parents, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Here are steps to take to stop your device from eavesdropping.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Birds and bats also eavesdrop when searching for mates and food.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Dan Werthimer has spent more than four decades trying to eavesdrop on aliens.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 2 July 2022
  • The cells of your body constantly eavesdrop on your thoughts from the wings of your mind.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The cells of your body constantly eavesdrop on your thoughts from the wings of your mind.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Lying in a tree above a path, the cat eavesdrops on people walking through the park.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
  • The spyware can then eavesdrop or steal data from your device.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Turn down the volume on your headphones to eavesdrop on convos.
    — Jelani Addams Rosa, Seventeen, 13 June 2018
  • Turn down the volume on your headphones to eavesdrop on convos.
    — Jelani Addams Rosa, Seventeen, 12 May 2017
  • Eavesdrop on the wildlife that call this natural habitat home.
    — NOLA.com, 7 July 2017
  • He's been eavesdropping on nature now for more than 60 years.
    — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • You have been invited to eavesdrop on a great man’s birthday party.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Fans have also been able to eavesdrop through the streaming platform Twitch.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The user would know their account has been compromised—no-one can eavesdrop.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • There is no wireless signal to hijack, no airwaves to eavesdrop on.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • As the mice watched the film clip, scientists eavesdropped on each one’s visual cortex.
    — Sharon Begley, STAT, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Through his radio, Henry can eavesdrop on people in a way that’s not bound by time or space.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • That’s why Haskins’s idea to eavesdrop on the huddle matters.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Someone leaks it, someone eavesdrops.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Some versions of the technology can also be used to eavesdrop on calls.
    — Matt Zapotosky, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • But today, the ability to eavesdrop sits with those who already hold power.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 10 May 2021
  • But he would be called things, and strangers would sometimes eavesdrop on our conversations and grimace.
    — Tina Knowles, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Five out of six brands tested by researchers would have allowed hackers to track kids—and in some cases eavesdrop on them.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 10 Sep. 2020
  • If the judge rules this was a case of one private person eavesdropping on another, then this case moves forward.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Surely this means Facebook's using your smartphone's mic to eavesdrop, right?
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Can lions eavesdrop on the calls of their competitors, the beautiful African wild dogs?
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2010
  • All the best intentions about not eavesdropping are difficult to uphold when a stranger in close radius has the volume turned way up.
    — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
  • The hope was that the listener would enjoy feeling like a fly on the wall, eavesdropping on two scientists schmoozing.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The work suggests a new way to eavesdrop on the activity of volcanoes that are sheathed by ice — and so catch tremors that may herald eruptions.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022

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