How to Use wiretap in a Sentence

wiretap

1 of 2 verb

• The FBI wiretapped his phone.
• An informant told Bolles that he was paid to wiretap his home phone.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• No, the museum is not planning to wiretap patrons to find out what’s in their cellphones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• Growing more suspicious, detectives obtained a court order to wiretap his phone.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• The car was rented under Blanchard’s name, which allowed detectives the access to wiretap his phone and track his every move.
  — Time, 13 July 2023
• Despite the technology’s potential for good, of course, there is a clear Orwellian thread in the idea of a future where bad actors can wiretap your brain.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
• In the wake of Robert’s murder, detectives decided to wiretap Sabrina and Hearn’s phones.
  — Amanda Karrh, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Priebus asked, referring to a top-secret warrant to wiretap an American citizen suspected of being a spy for a foreign government.
  — NBC news, 13 Feb. 2017
• The inspector general found more than a dozen inaccuracies and misstatements in all four applications to wiretap Page.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2020
• Prosecutors tried to hold Facebook in contempt after the company refused to help investigators wiretap its Messenger app, but a judge ruled against them.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Now the government’s security services can wiretap and detain without judicial supervision.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
• The document offers a new timeline of wiretap orders in the case based on Dawkins' request for the recordings to be thrown out because an April 7 order to wiretap his phone was missing the name of the official who authorized it.
  — Chris White, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2018
• One of the recordings released after a fight with Congress and the courts revealed the president’s involvement in attempts to stymie an investigation into an attempt to wiretap the Democratic National Committee.
  — Chris Strohm, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
• Section 702 permits the US government to wiretap communications between Americans and foreigners overseas.
  — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2024

wiretap

2 of 2 noun

• Federal agents put a wiretap on his phone.
• Investigators listened to the wiretaps for clues about the suspect's whereabouts.
• The bill wouldn’t change what crimes could receive a judge’s approval for a wiretap.
  — Anita Chabria, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• Members of the group were caught on wiretap before his arrest last year threatening to kill him.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
• But over the wiretap, Jensen was hearing a different sequence of events play out.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• There are no police dogs, jail time, or federal wiretaps in this sneaker campaign.
  — Debbie Millman, Time, 22 Jan. 2026
• Was Adidas caught on the federal wiretap in a case of terrible luck?
  — oregonlive.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The Times reports Seaford was also a victim of a yearlong wiretap.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2023
• In this case, the troopers did not commit a willful interception under the wiretap statute, the high court ruled.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
• Wilson-Cairns had access to the recording of the wiretap, which in reality was three hours long.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• Kellyanne Conway, at the time, said at one point that electric appliances could have been used for the wiretap, but later walked that back.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 19 May 2018
• In the indictment, prosecutors wrote that members of the drug crew were caught on wiretaps discussing drug deals and murder plots.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2019
• Any existing court orders for business records and special types of wiretaps, for example, will still be valid during the lull.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• His lawyer followed up with a letter that said the team went so far as to hack foreign governments and wiretap Uber’s own employees.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• The Markel case was convoluted, had tons of backstory, and there was hours of archival audio from police wiretaps and stings.
  — Eric Benson, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
• The ruling came nine months before the first wiretap application in the Hillsboro murder case.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2021
• Unlike a wiretap, a pen register/trap and trace does not monitor the contents of phone conversations.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• Silverman also said police had conducted a wiretap operation in the case, but did not disclose the nature of it.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
• Defense lawyer Kevin Sali sought to suppress wiretap evidence against his client in a Hillsboro homicide case.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2021
• Their goal was to plant wiretaps and copy sensitive documents in the DNC chairman’s office.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 12 June 2019
• Investigators tapped Clark’s phone but did not do a wiretap on Householder or Borges’ phones.
  — Jessie Balmert, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• After this revelation, the Supreme Court sent the case back down for further review because of the wiretap issue.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
• Modine and the actors who play the rich and famous recite lines from wiretap transcripts, although the filmmakers say some have been edited for length and clarity.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021
• Prosecutors had argued that the email tracking was not an invasive tool and so did not meet the legal criteria of a search or a wiretap and did not require a search warrant.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2019
• Two of the defendants were also apparently caught on a wiretap discussing threats made to John Doe 1’s father.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• People questioned the ethics of an AI that pretended to be human, wiretap laws were called into question, and some even questioned if the demo was faked.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
• Those conversations gave new insight into how fervent Bolles had been in wanting the Funks prosecuted for the wiretap.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
• That initially worked, as a Springfield judge allowed his motion to suppress — ruling that the recordings violated the wiretap statute.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
• Two long years later, in early 2016, Miller's boss came into the wiretap room and asked whether Miller wanted to join a different team.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
• The city solicitor responded by warning the person who sent it that they could be prosecuted under the state’s wiretap law, an e-mail obtained by the Globe shows.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022