eavesdropper

Example Sentences

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Tøndel empowers the camera to follow characters down hallways and then continue, peeking around corners, finding an eavesdropper.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

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

“I can’t tell if it’s metallic or what,” one pilot said, according to cockpit audio obtained by journalist Thomas Newdick from an earthbound eavesdropper identified as “Mike in southwest Wisconsin.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023

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

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