How to Use surveillance in a Sentence

surveillance

noun

• The bank robbery was recorded by surveillance video cameras.
• The truck had been out of the range of any surveillance cameras.
  — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
• In my view, the urge to make the night safer should not simply mean more surveillance.
  — Jess Reia, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• 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
• But video surveillance of his cell showed no sign of it, the report said.
  — Robert Moore, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2022
• The toys are in full surveillance mode for the biggest day of their year: Christmas.
  — Maggie Malach, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2022
• Mall surveillance footage showed one group with Brown and the other group with Greer.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2024
• The surveillance was billed to Ms. Spears’s estate, Mr. Vlasov said.
  — New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
• Police had shared surveillance footage of the group of teenagers wanted for the assaults.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
• It was learned through surveillance video that the bag belonged to a 48-year-old Mayfield Heights man.
  — cleveland, 27 June 2022
• 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
• The acts of defiance were rare and rather novel, for a surveillance state.
  — Adam Rawnsley, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The surveillance video shows the suspect dragging the victim down the stairs before pushing him away.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The surveillance shows the men quickly leaving and closing the door behind them.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The eerie and bizarre scene, captured by a surveillance camera on Feb. 7, has since gone viral.
  — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Troopers were able to access surveillance footage from the time of the incident.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2025
• Police obtained store surveillance video that showed a man and a woman using the card.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Guards strapped him to a chair and placed him under running water, video surveillance showed.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The break-in attempt was captured on the home’s surveillance camera, which was later released by the court.
  — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Video surveillance inside the theater captured Mbengue chase after the teen and the tussle but not the shooting, Dale-Schmidt said.
  — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
• Our ears were numb with the constant humming of what I was told were the surveillance drones that circled constantly.
  — Irfan Galaria, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• Though the method of attack wasn’t revealed, an investigation found the hacker had obtained call and location data from the attache’s phone and surveillance video Mexico City's camera system.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
• Angulo, his businesses and his associates were under surveillance for nearly five months, from March through July 2025, according to federal court records.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, AZCentral.com, 12 July 2025