How to Use espionage in a Sentence

espionage

noun

• He was charged with several counts of espionage.
• Whelan was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• The opener sets up the tense first look at the return of the Paramount+ espionage thriller from Taylor Sheridan.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2024
• Any espionage yarn risks losing the audience’s interest and bearings.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• In total, officials said, Toebbe provided thousands of pages of documents, and his espionage ambitions had been building for years.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• This is called the living-off-the-land technique in the world of espionage.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 25 May 2023
• Yes, and Sam’s dad moved to Idaho, too, to help with the Boise State espionage.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022
• In his view, the real star of both the track and field team and the team’s small brush with espionage was sprinter Dave Sime.
  — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
• The close study of humans, so crucial to espionage, is just as vital to the spy drama.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2024
• Wei was charged that day with espionage and pleaded not guilty.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• He was charged with espionage and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor.
  — Cary Junior Ii, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2022
• This all sounds like a pretty standard and fun spy/espionage thriller.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• Evan Gershkovich has been detained on espionage charges for over a week.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
• She had been charged and convicted of espionage in 2013.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 25 June 2024
• Sichel unearths the roots of conflicts that plague today’s world and the toll espionage took on his personal life.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
• The first season is expected to include a total of eight episodes, so there are four more weeks of espionage action to go.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 10 Apr. 2023
• The case marks the first time since the Cold War that an American journalist has been put on trial for espionage in Russia.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• And in 2020, Whelan was convicted of espionage by a Russian court and has since served two years of his nine-year sentence.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2022
• The whole world of Elizabethan espionage is brought to blazing life in this true-crime masterpiece.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• Officials do not believe the sphere is involved in any sort of espionage, according to The Guardian.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
• No one marries the suspense of espionage with a deep exploration of the human soul quite like le Carré.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
• The government failed to prove that Flynn had engaged in espionage.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• She was convicted of 20 charges, including espionage and theft, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
  — CBS News, 17 Oct. 2022
• For years, China's hackers focused on by-the-book espionage.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• They -- Chinese espionage, out-of- control crime in our cities.
  — CBS News, 21 Aug. 2022
• That would extend his imprisonment to 10 months on false charges of espionage since his arrest in March.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
• The men told him he was being detained on suspicion of espionage, blindfolded him and seized his phone.
  — Miho Inada, wsj.com, 9 Apr. 2023
• He was arrested in March 2023 and is facing espionage charges.
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
• The espionage intrigue is rote; the action is more bombastic than any rom-act-com can truly sustain.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
• And if that’s not enough espionage for one trip, the hotel can also arrange a private London Spy Walking Tour.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024