How to Use snoop in a Sentence

snoop

1 of 2 verb
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  • She locks up her diary to keep her brother from snooping.
  • Government agencies have been snooping on them for years.
  • She doesn't want reporters snooping into her personal life.
  • Now my niece has done some snooping on her own and found parts of the truth.
    — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The case revolves around the premise that the FBI had no business snooping on Trump.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 23 May 2018
  • Here’s how to check if someone is snooping on your phone.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • That raised concerns the Chinese government might be able to snoop on the video calls.
    — Fortune, 11 June 2020
  • Until then, there’s a treasure trove of files for someone to snoop through.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Or their mothers or cousins snoop through their drawers, find the pills and know their business.
    — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Last year, the Human Rights Watch accused the country of snooping on gay men.
    — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Over the phone, Betty convinces Veronica to snoop around the Keller house.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2017
  • Don’t read their text messages or snoop behind their back.
    — Danielle Fox, Seventeen, 24 July 2018
  • Just a quick toggle permits Amazon to snoop on your phone.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2022
  • How to stop Amazon from snooping on you as browse the Web on your computer?
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 16 July 2019
  • Scruggs snooped around the Internet for more video of the store and includes those scenes alongside her own.
    — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 7 June 2018
  • But snooping around the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay isn’t what allowed us to break the story.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 17 May 2020
  • Someone who snoops once is likely going to snoop again.
    — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • As a result, Alice snoops in Betty's room and finds her black Dark Betty wig.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2018
  • All seems well, but later Georgia decides to snoop in Maddie's phone while she's passed out.
    — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Parents have always snooped on their children, and smartphones have given them a new way to do it.
    — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Let the state inspector come snooping around her store for Dodo.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In the pre-Trump era, the group stopped short of snooping for dirt beyond publicly available documents or clips.
    — Gabriel Debenedetti, Daily Intelligencer, 20 May 2018
  • One study showed that the teenagers of parents who snooped weren’t any more likely to be doing anything wrong than kids with parents who didn’t.
    — Mandy Oaklander, Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile, Clarice takes advantage of the confusion to snoop around the compound.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Hiding the weapon isn’t enough, some said, because curious kids will go snooping for it.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • She’s also always eavesdropping and snooping around and his big plans of her own.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
  • Not everyone who gets recorded knows they’re being watched, and the temptation to snoop can be strong.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Later, back in Natalie’s room, Adora finds Camille and scolds her for snooping in the daughter’s room.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 16 July 2018
  • The guests grow bolder, snooping into every corner of the house, and each time Lawrence finds herself back in the kitchen, there are people sitting on the sink.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2017
  • This is far from the first time the Indian government has been accused of snooping on critics.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
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snoop

2 of 2 noun
  • We had a snoop around their apartment.
  • No, I didn't read your e-mail. I'm no snoop.
  • Tap or click for 5 quick and easy ways to stop snoops in their tracks.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Kim, as the biggest snoop of the family, cannot stand it.
    — Lauren Hoffman, Seventeen, 13 Mar. 2017
  • A friend takes out her trash, dispersing it around town to evade snoops.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 4 July 2017
  • Click here to learn the steps to secure your microphone from snoops.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
  • This was made possible by the web's biggest snoop of all: Google.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019
  • This was made possible by the web’s biggest snoop of all: Google.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 23 June 2019
  • This was made possible by the Web’s biggest snoop of all: Google.
    — Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • Today, the app’s 1.6 billion users can talk, text, and video chat without fear of snoops.
    — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The snoop has now seen the entire message, spying it in all its glory and while in plaintext.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Be a beauty snoop.. check out what celebs like Sharon Stone and Serena Williams have stashed in their bags.
    — Marie Claire, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The urge to look around — or worse, snoop and go through another person's things — is always there.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
  • The first is a snoop named Miriam Lewis, who lives on an adjacent houseboat.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2021
  • As Nohl noted, snoops have long had a variety of ways to track the location of many cellular devices.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2019
  • That gives a hacker or a snoop ample opportunity to get his or her hands on your data.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The internet-wide push to encrypt more web traffic has resulted in a wave of safer, snoop-proof connections.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 13 June 2019
  • There are many other tricks for keeping our personal data away from snoops and hackers.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
  • Snoop posted a follow-up video apologizing after rapper T.I. stepped in and prompted him to do so.
    — Jillian Selzer, Cosmopolitan, 30 June 2017
  • Hannah and her fellow canine snoops went through a ten-week training course to learn to identify a compound called triphenylphosphine oxide.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • So what better time to get a head start on defending yourself against web snoops (as if email trackers, which this column covered last year, weren’t annoying enough already)?
    — Brian X. Chen and Natasha Singer, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2016
  • At the center is a snoop-proof courtroom capable of trying six alleged co-conspirators before one judge and jury.
    — miamiherald, 8 May 2017
  • Miss Butterworth is an elderly snoop who pays intense attention to the goings-on in her neighborhood.
    — Anna Katharine Green, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Security experts suggest keeping type small to foil phone snoops.
    — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 9 May 2018
  • Palladino was a private eye — a snoop who could dig up a crucial witness or piece of evidence or follow a money trail to clear or convict a defendant at trial.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2021
  • There are plenty of guides available on how to protect your data, how to secure yourself online, and how to stop digital snoops from tracking you across the web and then profiting from that intrusion.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 19 May 2018
  • Researchers recently discovered that the app lacks the basic encryption needed to keep your swipes, as well as your photos and matches, hidden from online snoops nearby, Wired reports.
    — Emily Price, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Lapena’s menacing suspense thriller traces the consequences — including murder — when a teenager in suburban New York breaks into his neighbors’ homes and snoops through the secrets on their computers.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The system involves every phone constantly broadcasting Bluetooth codes, but limits any snoop's ability to eavesdrop on those codes to track a person's movements by switching up the numbers every 10 or 15 minutes.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Skeptics wonder if the convenience of being able to manage a thermostat remotely or turn off lights automatically is worth the risk of a hacker repurposing the gadgets or snoops learning your household habits.
    — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 27 Apr. 2018

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