How to Use Peeping Tom in a Sentence

Peeping Tom

noun
  • Oakley was charged with 11 counts of Peeping Tom with photograph/electronic equipment, according to police.
    — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The last film in the program is Peeping Tom, a film from 1960 that deals with childhood trauma, because the [protagonist] is a young filmmaker who, as a child, was abused by his father.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Certainly one of the best films about filmmaking since François Truffaut’s Day for Night, The Beloved might be the scariest since Peeping Tom.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 May 2026
  • In May, three men were charged in connection with a Peeping Tom incident at an apartment complex located near Towson University.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Arrest in Peeping Tom investigation Andrade Robinson, 55, was taken into custody after he was found in the Rogers Forge area in the early morning hours of May 8, police said.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 13 May 2026
  • With its sadistic violence, taboo sexuality, and grim depiction of postwar London, Peeping Tom was a flop that essentially ended the illustrious career of director Michael Powell, falling into obscurity until Martin Scorsese rescued it and rehabilitated its reputation with a 1979 rerelease.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Think Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Polanski’s The Tenant, Haneke’s Caché, Coppola’s The Conversation and Powell’s Peeping Tom for starters, or at the more delectably lurid end of the spectrum, De Palma’s Body Double and Dressed to Kill.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026

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