read a/someone's diary

Frequency: 8.015.5 per million words

To look at and understand the words in someone's diary, often without permission.

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Examples (10)

  • No one is allowed to read my diary.
  • I can't believe you read my diary without my permission.
  • He immediately regretted his decision to read her secret diary.
  • What would you do if you found out a friend had read your diary?
  • In the dusty attic, she found and began to read her grandfather's old diary.
  • Promise me you will never read my diary.
  • Curiosity got the better of him, and he decided to read his brother's diary.
  • Reading someone's diary is a serious invasion of privacy.
  • I would never read your diary; I respect your privacy too much.
  • She was furious when she discovered her mother had read her diary.