snooping

Example Sentences

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Isn’t the whole uproar over Mr. Smith’s snooping on senators’ phone records a “tempest and teapot” given he had to follow rules?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

And for bears that keep snooping around houses or livestock, there are ways of hazing that don’t involve dogs chasing them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2025

Those traits, paired with her knack for snooping, made Harriet just like I was as a child: too curious for my own good, and prone to making mistakes because of it.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2025

Sometimes animal activists come snooping around, Mark said: “We do things differently, and some people don’t understand.”

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2024

At first he’d said he was snooping around the Mother Paula’s property in order to heist a load of Gladiator cigarettes.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen