stakeout (noun)

1. The famous artist captured the intensity of a stakeout in his painting, filled with shadowy figures and hidden motives.

2. During the Prohibition era, the police conducted a stakeout outside the speakeasy, trying to catch bootleggers in the act.

3. Why did the detective go to the bakery? Because he heard they had a doughnut stakeout!

4. According to ancient Greek mythology, the gods used to conduct stakeouts to catch misbehaving mortals in the act.