How to Use surveillance in a Sentence
surveillance
noun- The bank robbery was recorded by surveillance video cameras.
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The truck had been out of the range of any surveillance cameras.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
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In my view, the urge to make the night safer should not simply mean more surveillance.
—Jess Reia, Fortune, 30 May 2023
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The stabbing was caught on surveillance videos which show the clash that led to the victim’s death.
—Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
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But video surveillance of his cell showed no sign of it, the report said.
—Robert Moore, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2022
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The toys are in full surveillance mode for the biggest day of their year: Christmas.
—Maggie Malach, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2022
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Mall surveillance footage showed one group with Brown and the other group with Greer.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2024
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The fallout from the dossier was largely contained to the Page surveillance.
—Marshall Cohen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
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The surveillance was billed to Ms. Spears’s estate, Mr. Vlasov said.
—New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
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The group also denied any role in or knowledge of any surveillance of the singer.
—Andrew Dalton, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2021
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Police had shared surveillance footage of the group of teenagers wanted for the assaults.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
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It was learned through surveillance video that the bag belonged to a 48-year-old Mayfield Heights man.
—cleveland, 27 June 2022
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Russell said she was held in the trailer of, checking surveillance footage at rest stops and truck stops.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
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The acts of defiance were rare and rather novel, for a surveillance state.
—Adam Rawnsley, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
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That shooting was less than a month ago and already some surveillance video has been released in the case.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2022
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The surveillance video shows the suspect dragging the victim down the stairs before pushing him away.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023
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The surveillance shows the men quickly leaving and closing the door behind them.
—Henri Hollis, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
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The four terrifying minutes where the coupe was propped over the abyss was caught on surveillance video.
—Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Feb. 2022
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The pair aboard the aircraft parachuted to the ground and were then transported to a hospital for surveillance.
—Madeline Beck, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2023
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The eerie and bizarre scene, captured by a surveillance camera on Feb. 7, has since gone viral.
—Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
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The suspect, caught on surveillance video, was described as a man with tattoos on at least one hand.
—Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 9 Oct. 2022
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Troopers were able to access surveillance footage from the time of the incident.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2025
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Police obtained store surveillance video that showed a man and a woman using the card.
—Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
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Guards strapped him to a chair and placed him under running water, video surveillance showed.
—Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Apr. 2023
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At the same time, the bill serves as a trojan horse for building out India’s growing surveillance state.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
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The break-in attempt was captured on the home’s surveillance camera, which was later released by the court.
—NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
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Criminals in some of the crimes captured on surveillance video wore masks.
—Glenn Minnis | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024
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In the surveillance footage, a person pulls up in a white Hyundai next to the car that the rapper was in and shoots directly into the vehicle.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 6 Sep. 2024
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In the 44-second surveillance video clip, a man can been milling about near the indoor play area, before the barefoot girl appears and stops outside the JCPenney.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2025
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An apex predator was spotted on home surveillance video after hopping a fence into a California home’s yard — and using some recycling bins as a personal staircase.
—Sacbee.com, 24 July 2025
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