verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
conversation
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And it would be yesterday morning again, and she hadn't been up to Hunter Ward and eavesdropped on a conversation .
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I began eavesdropping on my parents conversations .
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Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation .
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Most shocking was the charge that Morris had allowed her to eavesdrop on conversations with the White House.
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I got to eavesdrop on their informal conversations and often attend their presentations or meetings or whatever.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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How did you know I was going? You've been eavesdropping, haven't you!
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I caught him eavesdropping on our conversation.
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Sue was able to eavesdrop on them through the open window.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Can he eavesdrop through a card, Jaq?
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Caroline felt riveted to the floor, motionless, unwilling to consciously eavesdrop but tense with curiosity.
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Hackers can eavesdrop using software that monitors packets sent over the network.
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He and his assistants hung around shopping malls and city streets, eavesdropping on whoops and hoots.
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In most cases, it is difficult to detect that some one is eavesdropping.
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Most shocking was the charge that Morris had allowed her to eavesdrop on conversations with the White House.
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She wanted to ask what the Leighs were talking about, but did not want him to think she had eavesdropped.
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Then the baboon came home and I eavesdropped anxiously and she told him.