snooping

Example Sentences

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Partway through the 1965 film “The Ipcress File,” Harry Palmer returns home to find a young, female colleague snooping around his apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

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

One of my aunts recently saw the paperwork on my desk and started snooping.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2024

She said nobody would suspect a kid dressed like a superhero of snooping for information.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya