peeping Tom

Example Sentences

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The alleged peeping Tom appeared outside a residence on Pearl Street in North Nashville around 6 a.m. on Feb. 1, Feb. 2 and on Monday, the Metro Nashville Police Department said.

From Fox News • Feb. 9, 2022

“This technology is creepy to me in a peeping Tom type of way,” said John Townsend, a public affairs manager at AAA Mid-Atlantic, which represents 1 million motorists in Maryland.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2019

Bloom shape-shifts into a lawyer, tyrant and craven peeping Tom.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2018

She would describe with humor the few times when my grandfather would chase the peeping Tom out of the yard yelling ' get on out of here'.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

Well, there sat the poor woman,—you see, Mrs. Grundy, that she was no Godiva, nor I a peeping Tom.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various