spy on

Example Sentences

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Before 2020, local tax collectors had to sit at airports to spy on tail numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

In 2015 the German newspaper Kicker reported that Cologne - where Eckert was working as a youth coach - had sent an analyst to spy on Hamburg during a warm-weather training camp in Dubai.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

The official was one of two men found guilty of helping China spy on dissidents in the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Yuen denied commissioning Wai to carry out surveillance of Hong Kong dissidents based in London, including "never" having asked him to spy on pro-democracy activist Nathan Law.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

I would back away into the darkness, furious at my stupid need to spy on them, and I would glide to the next camp of men, and I’d hear the same.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner