eavesdropper

Example Sentences

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I’m a first-class eavesdropper, and that’s when my chances to overhear juicy morsels are best.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024

Unfortunately, the researchers using them are often faced with a similar plight as the unfortunate eavesdropper, leaning against a locked door with an empty glass to their ear.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

Communicating with entangled light can also guarantee security, as measurements of quantum systems can reveal the presence of the eavesdropper.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2022

Ogawa resists the label, saying she considers herself an eavesdropper on her characters.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2019

I wondered if the bishop’s wife saw the flush on my face, but she went on smoothly with the conversation, and I listened to her greedily, like an eavesdropper at a shuttered window.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier