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

An ATM con that involves some snooping, some acting and some sleight-of-hand is being carried out across Southern California, police say.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

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

So the prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, originally meant to stop the constable banging on your door in 1787, now applies to the government snooping through the contents of your smartphone.

From Slate • May 8, 2024

And ever since Cletus came snooping around Ob’s old Chevy last November, Ob and me know about them, too.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant