How to Use snoop in a Sentence

snoop

1 of 2 verb
  • She locks up her diary to keep her brother from snooping.
  • Government agencies have been snooping on them for years.
  • She doesn't want reporters snooping into her personal life.
  • Now my niece has done some snooping on her own and found parts of the truth.
    — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
  • But snooping signals a lack of trust.
    — Dr. Cortney Warren, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
  • If someone tries to snoop beyond their role, they’re stopped cold.
    — Maxwell Alles, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Why not replace snooping with sleuthing?
    — Gina Park, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Until then, there’s a treasure trove of files for someone to snoop through.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Or their mothers or cousins snoop through their drawers, find the pills and know their business.
    — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Don't let that be an excuse to start snooping and reading your neighbor's mail.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Parents have always snooped on their children, and smartphones have given them a new way to do it.
    — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • That raised concerns the Chinese government might be able to snoop on the video calls.
    — Fortune, 11 June 2020
  • Let the state inspector come snooping around her store for Dodo.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Footage of a woman snooping in on her dogs in the dead of the night has left the internet in stitches.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Hiding the weapon isn’t enough, some said, because curious kids will go snooping for it.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But Barclay said the intention here isn’t to go snooping.
    — Adam Stone, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But is such snooping even necessary anymore?
    — Gina Park, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Some versions were designed to snoop on Telegram messages.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • How to stop Amazon from snooping on you as browse the Web on your computer?
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 16 July 2019
  • Not everyone who gets recorded knows they’re being watched, and the temptation to snoop can be strong.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, for disclosure, don't go snooping around this property.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Scruggs snooped around the Internet for more video of the store and includes those scenes alongside her own.
    — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 7 June 2018
  • One study showed that the teenagers of parents who snooped weren’t any more likely to be doing anything wrong than kids with parents who didn’t.
    — Mandy Oaklander, Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • All seems well, but later Georgia decides to snoop in Maddie's phone while she's passed out.
    — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Kim Komando has tips on keeping the content of your cell phone secure from snooping.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2018
  • One member warned that state officials would snoop around their rural properties to tell owners what to do.
    — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
  • China’s Huawei has been hampered by allegations that its phones are designed to snoop on users.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Last year, the Human Rights Watch accused the country of snooping on gay men.
    — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 9 Aug. 2019
  • In the pre-Trump era, the group stopped short of snooping for dirt beyond publicly available documents or clips.
    — Gabriel Debenedetti, Daily Intelligencer, 20 May 2018
  • Over the phone, Betty convinces Veronica to snoop around the Keller house.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2017

snoop

2 of 2 noun
  • We had a snoop around their apartment.
  • No, I didn't read your e-mail. I'm no snoop.
  • Tap or click for 5 quick and easy ways to stop snoops in their tracks.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Maggie is a snoop—and a clumsy one.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Click here to learn the steps to secure your microphone from snoops.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Here’s how to know if a hacker or snoop is already in your smartphone.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Except Leo is the opposite of a snoop.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The snoop has now seen the entire message, spying it in all its glory and while in plaintext.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • There are many other tricks for keeping our personal data away from snoops and hackers.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
  • The first is a snoop named Miriam Lewis, who lives on an adjacent houseboat.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2021
  • That gives a hacker or a snoop ample opportunity to get his or her hands on your data.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Security experts suggest keeping type small to foil phone snoops.
    — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 9 May 2018
  • Just how much secret information could a snoop discover?
    — PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The internet-wide push to encrypt more web traffic has resulted in a wave of safer, snoop-proof connections.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 13 June 2019
  • As Nohl noted, snoops have long had a variety of ways to track the location of many cellular devices.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Hannah and her fellow canine snoops went through a ten-week training course to learn to identify a compound called triphenylphosphine oxide.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • At the center is a snoop-proof courtroom capable of trying six alleged co-conspirators before one judge and jury.
    — miamiherald, 8 May 2017
  • So what better time to get a head start on defending yourself against web snoops (as if email trackers, which this column covered last year, weren’t annoying enough already)?
    — Brian X. Chen and Natasha Singer, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2016
  • Miss Butterworth is an elderly snoop who pays intense attention to the goings-on in her neighborhood.
    — Anna Katharine Green, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Palladino was a private eye — a snoop who could dig up a crucial witness or piece of evidence or follow a money trail to clear or convict a defendant at trial.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2021
  • There are plenty of guides available on how to protect your data, how to secure yourself online, and how to stop digital snoops from tracking you across the web and then profiting from that intrusion.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 19 May 2018
  • Researchers recently discovered that the app lacks the basic encryption needed to keep your swipes, as well as your photos and matches, hidden from online snoops nearby, Wired reports.
    — Emily Price, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Skeptics wonder if the convenience of being able to manage a thermostat remotely or turn off lights automatically is worth the risk of a hacker repurposing the gadgets or snoops learning your household habits.
    — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The Camp Justice compound also has a series of maximum-security, snoop-proof office-style trailers for attorneys to handle classified documents.
    — miamiherald, 26 Oct. 2016
  • The system involves every phone constantly broadcasting Bluetooth codes, but limits any snoop's ability to eavesdrop on those codes to track a person's movements by switching up the numbers every 10 or 15 minutes.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 17 Apr. 2020
  • But as a panel of cybersecurity experts indicated in a congressional hearing Wednesday, there’s no easy way to detect the machines that malicious hackers and foreign snoops can use to secretly intercept calls and texts.
    — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 28 June 2018

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