How to Use voyeur in a Sentence

voyeur

noun
  • At this point, the town voyeur has moved on to bigger things.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • Big Brother refers to the voyeur.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
  • Without the skin, the view of the fuselage is a car voyeur's wet dream.
    — David Diamond, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
  • Venus in Aquarius is more of a voyeur than an active engager.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Another one-third are voyeurs or might try a little bit of something.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2017
  • If there is something funny or unsettling about it, the onus is on the voyeur, not the film.
    — John Paul Brammer, NBC News, 9 May 2017
  • Airports, which are not most people’s favorite places, appeal to her as a voyeur.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
  • At first, Oona is more a voyeur than an active participant in her life.
    — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • More sophisticated voyeurs may use spy gear that has its own hot spot for livestreaming.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • An audience is a voyeur who exists beyond the boundaries of time.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In other words, this is house candy at its most delicious, tailor made for voyeurs like me.
    — Marni Jameson, NOLA.com, 5 May 2019
  • The song’s video features a troupe of exotic dancers turning the tables on the voyeurs who watch them.
    — Christa Titus, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2017
  • Online, hundreds of thousands of people have become voyeurs in her saga.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Guests are voyeurs, invited to watch the dance of chef’s preparation, to ask questions.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But creeps aren’t always just voyeurs (or men), especially when there’s booze involved.
    — Brandi California, SPIN, 1 July 2024
  • Arguably its most famous attraction for thrill seekers and voyeurs?
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2023
  • Philyaw is a voyeur of a kind, training her gaze on the furtive activities of Black women.
    — The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • Both the police and the couple themselves start to close in on the voyeur, who is presumed to be the kidnapper.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Footage has been shared widely online, uploaded to streaming sites and shared on voyeur forums.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • In it, a voyeur ends up getting stalked himself, a modern social-stalker story.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Talese follows Foos and covers his life, watching the watcher and viewing the voyeur.
    — Janaya Wecker, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2022
  • As the identity of the voyeur and the truth behind the videos are revealed, the family starts to crumble.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The chef is shown constantly tasting in segments that will send a frisson of delight to foodie-voyeurs.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 4 June 2018
  • Some of the women described the voyeur as a white man, 25 to 35, wearing a black jacket.
    — Longreads, 5 May 2022
  • But the season wasn't able to wrap up its big mystery around the town voyeur sending everyone super creepy videotapes.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The parasitic bloom-red flower has long grabbed the attention of scientists and voyeurs alike.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Some shots seem to be from the perspective of a voyeur, standing in a dark room, squinting through a house plant to peep at what’s happening yonder.
    — Casey Gerald, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2020
  • In encountering them, Fraleigh hopes that the viewer feels not like a voyeur, but instead, like an intruder.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The record’s primary premise is that Drake is a voyeur of Black American culture.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
  • Wrestlers told Politico that coaches, like Jordan, often had to kick voyeurs out of the sauna and practice areas.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 13 July 2018

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