How to Use suspicious in a Sentence

suspicious

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  • He found a suspicious lump on his back and was afraid it might be cancer.
  • Suspicious characters were seen hanging around the bank.
  • His manner made me suspicious.
  • Officials are suspicious about her death.
  • The suspicious vehicle was reported to police.
  • We were instructed to report any suspicious activity in the neighborhood.
  • Not much else is known about the upcoming reboot but be on the lookout for any and all suspicious wigs.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2024
  • At this time, police said the death did not appear suspicious.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • If the mammograms were flagged as suspicious, women were asked to come back for more tests.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • With a suspicious mind, Hall says Andre went to work to solve this tattoo mystery.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Outside of court, Iredale told the Union-Tribune that the timing of the audit in November 2018 was suspicious.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The first lead French police had was a suspicious black car that was seen in the early hours of Monday morning circling the No Address.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The murders were simply the latest in a string of suspicious deaths to strike Mollie’s family.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The Guardian also submitted suspicious samples from such books to Originality.ai, which said, again, that each had rating of 100% on its A.I.-detection score.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • On the first occasion, a group of day laborers told them they had been asked to remove suspicious bags that felt heavy and soggy.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Wilson stated the fire did not appear to be suspicious in nature.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Locate and delete any suspicious files or folders in your storage.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The paper was rightly suspicious that lawmakers might try to raid the new fund for things that didn’t have a thing to do with education.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The police were responding to a report of a suspicious person wearing a ski mask and waving his arms.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • No cause of death has been released, but London police have said it was not being treated as suspicious.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 31 July 2023
  • Or maybe the customer had a transaction with another party that was deemed suspicious (and in some cases, the banks don’t want the customer to be a victim).
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • When three prisoners made a successful escape, suspicious German eyes homed in on the golf course and its sprawling mounds and greens.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • According to a press release, the Rock Island Police Department launched a probe into a suspicious death case at the home last week.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The poet’s wife, Caitlin, joined them, apparently suspicious of two 22-year-olds who had been so eager to meet her husband.
    — Sam Dolnick, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • It was reported that the vessel had been marked as suspicious by the Navy and was being boarded for further inspection.
    — Justin Klawans, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Later the redheaded woman turns up dead, and a cop comes to ask her if she’s noticed anything suspicious in the neighborhood.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In the clip that aired, Ross (David Schwimmer) runs into the room, excited that he’s getting married that day, while Chandler’s in bed trying not to seem suspicious.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
  • These tools include the ability for banks to flag suspicious accounts and limit the amount and frequency of payments by those accounts.
    — Adriana Morga, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • At one drugstore, when a reporter started speaking Spanish, the clerk grew suspicious.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • He’s got experience already in getting to the bottom of suspicious deaths.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024

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