prying

Example Sentences

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The home’s location inside a guard-gated community will also offer Lopez plenty of security, helping to protect her and her children from prying eyes.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

But will prying eyes across the interwebs ever learn the whole story?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

How do you protect your phone screen from prying eyes?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

For decades a narrow waterway in Ganvie, Benin has been a discreet rendezvous point for young couples to meet -- safe under cover of darkness, far away from strict families and prying eyes.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Whenever Weedy gets an hour alone and away from prying goblin eyes, he goes into a kind of trance and then imagines what he wants to show us, whatever he’s seen.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin