spy on

phrasal verb

spied on; spying on; spies on

: to watch (someone) secretly

He spies on his neighbors.

Have you been spying on me?

Examples of spy on in a Sentence

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Video and Audio Protection The idea that some online perv could connect to your webcam and spy on you is enough to give anyone the creeps. —

PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025 Whether or not you’re being spied on, was the app ever even worth using at all? —

Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025 The joke conspiracy is meant to satirize the spread of misinformation by proliferating the false idea that the U.S. government wiped out birds and replaced the animals with drones to spy on Americans. —

Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025 Gowdy, who left Congress in 2019, got on Trump’s bad side for not embracing his conspiracy theories about Democrats spying on his campaign, and Scott competed against Trump in the GOP’s 2024 presidential primary. —

Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for spy on