surveillant

Example Sentences

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"There's a particular ire reserved for women like Perry: ambitious, unapologetic, hyper-visible," she wrote in a column, noting that male celebrities have already gone into space without such surveillant reaction.

From BBC • May 3, 2025

The strongest, tautest story in the collection is “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” again told in second person, this time from the perspective of a government surveillant.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2022

The movie is all tableaux — pacific, surveillant, surreal.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

The consequences of that world for the surveillant as well as the surveilled is a lesson for this day and age for sure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2022

Half a dozen of the eldest succeeded in obtaining leave, and I was commissioned to accompany them as surveillant.

From The Professor by Brontë, Charlotte