Sentence examples for caught eavesdropping from inspiring English sources

Ms. Danis recalled, "When I heard him, I was embarrassed to be caught eavesdropping".

When the National Security Agency was caught eavesdropping without a warrant on international communications, the Bush administration assured critics that if the agents scraped up information on innocent Americans, they would delete it.

"As we begin this new year," he continued, "the executive branch of our government has been caught eavesdropping on huge numbers of American citizens and has brazenly declared that it has the unilateral right to continue without regard to the established law enacted by Congress to prevent such abuses".

Amazon's Alexa has been caught eavesdropping again.

Amongst their revisions, Sam is caught eavesdropping and forced to go along with Frodo, instead of Sam, Merry, and Pippin figuring out about the One Ring themselves and voluntarily going along after confronting Frodo about it, as occurs in the original novel.

If you are caught eavesdropping by guards, prepare to draw your blade.

But he isn't sure and, more importantly, he feels guilty because he only suspects because he was eavesdropping on an argument, and the potential killer caught him in the act.

Surveillance, snooping, spying, eavesdropping… all that is done by espionage agencies (which we occasionally catch out and tell the world about), not us".

I consider eavesdropping but eventually decide against it because it would be too awkward if I were caught.

I'm not sure how this caught fire and spread so quickly on Facebook and Twitter, because the whole point of the eavesdropping law revision was to remove language that made it a felony for any citizen to record a law enforcement officer on duty.

Still, our eavesdropping seems to have broken German law, as well as the first rule of spying: Don't get caught.