How to use "surveillance" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "surveillance" in popular movie and book plots

  • Johann needs somewhere to continue his surveillance of the alien when the observation deck closes.  - Liquid Sky
  • After compiling as much evidence as he possibly can, he convinces his superiors at the DOJ to set up surveillance in a hotel room.  - True Colors (1991 film)
  • Nick shows the judge surveillance footage of his apartment being searched, and the judge orders the jury sequestered.  - Runaway Jury
  • Congress is pushing that dramatically expands the surveillance powers of intelligence agencies over individuals and groups.  - Enemy of the State (film)
  • He then takes the store video surveillance tape and empties the cash register.  - Menace II Society
  • She contacts the police departments of the cities where the shops are located, requesting surveillance tapes.  - Hannibal (film)
  • Donatti warns Dick that he will be under surveillance and if he is caught smoking, Dick's family will be sent to the "rabbit room".  - Quitters, Inc.
  • Beck's constant surveillance of the staff and students.  - Villette (novel)
  • Carter goes to the restaurant alone where he sees a surveillance video of Juntao carrying Soo-Yung into a van.  - Rush Hour (1998 film)
  • On 5 March 1985, the CSIS obtained a court order to place Parmar under surveillance for one year, just three months before the bombing.  - Air India Flight 182
  • Of the three surveillance robots sent through to this planet, he finds two have also been broken apart.  - The Practice Effect
  • Rosen is mystified by Quinn's exoneration of Gallagher, so he places phone taps on both and begins a surveillance of their movements.  - Absence of Malice
  • Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is a surveillance expert who runs his own company in San Francisco.  - The Conversation
  • Aerial surveillance reveals that everyone in Piedmont, Arizona, the town closest to where the satellite landed, is apparently dead.  - The Andromeda Strain
  • At their jobs in central video CCTV control centers, SEN 5241 and LUH 3417 keep surveillance on the city.  - THX 1138
  • On a surveillance mission to the seedy East End, a disguised Bruce is propositioned by teenaged prostitute Holly Robinson.  - Batman: Year One

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