How to Use clue in in a Sentence

clue in

phrasal verb

• Each Row contains two answers, side by side, which span the width of the grid and are clued in order.
  — Patrick Berry, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• The first clue in the case was a July 11 call to state troopers about an empty kayak with a dry bag attached.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• With the potential clues in place, fans online are trying to connect the dots.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2023
• Quill and fountain pens In one part of the exhibit, fans have clued in on a quill and a fountain pen near a piece of paper.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
• Schwartzkopf says even though Amy couldn't provide a name, the clues in her account add up to just one conclusion.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Investors will be looking for clues in a post-meeting statement on when the central bank will pause the rate hikes.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 3 May 2023
• Spotify teased the top artist by hiding Swift clues in billboards around the globe in the days leading up to the unveiling.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
• Brady took a few selfies, clued in her family via text message and got ready for Russell to wake up.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 25 July 2023
• Marc is clued in to a secret his husband was keeping from him by a Loewe shopping bag in Oliver’s closet.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• The quarterback intentionally didn’t clue in most of his teammates about the call.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Was there a clue in the fact that in the nineties, Banyai’s mother, the executor of his father’s estate, took him to court to recover a Volkswagen Jetta?
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
• New information may offer clues in the killings of several wild burros in the Mojave Desert more than four years ago.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• Swift has trained her fans to be on the lookout for clues in her work that may have a larger meaning, an assignment fans are taking seriously for the movie, too.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• If anything, the audience for the German movie will see clues in choppy, stylized fight scenes as to whether a scene ought to be seen as serious or just insane fun.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• However, there might be some clues in the nuances of each patient’s cognitive function.
  — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2024
• Hard to say in the Thursday game if a 20-something fan a dozen rows up from the third base dugout agreed with Borkowski’s sentiment or was insufficiently clued in as to how the system worked.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• Bank robbers and terrorists are presumably also clued in on this now.
  — WIRED, 22 June 2023
• The manner, tone, and expressions of speech can be valuable clues in assessing cognition.
  — Lawrence K. Altman, STAT, 16 Feb. 2024
• Put your crossword blinders on and attack one column of clues in its entirety before trying the others.
  — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• We are clued in to the lodger’s identity (the actor family, the secessionist loyalties).
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• With audiences now clued in on Rya’s full history and commitment to Danny’s cause, Seyfried says the rest of the series will find their stories more clearly intertwined.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
• As for more details about the unique holiday venture, Hallmark gave some clues in an article for People published on July 19.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2023
• It wasn't known then, but those two locations – Long Island and midtown Manhattan – would become important clues in the hunt for a serial killer.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Learn about the history of Medina County, accomplish fun and wacky challenges and search for clues in this family-friendly race.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
• They were clued in that quiet vehicles means less problems about potential breakdowns.
  — Curbed, 8 Aug. 2023
• Dinosaurs have a habit of digging their claws into our imaginations, however, so researchers have kept on, turning up a few clues in the past two decades about the surfeit of superlative sauropods.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• Though it’s narrated in the first person, the reader is kept at a certain remove from this tiny drama of anxiety and disappointment, never fully clued in to what is at stake.
  — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
• Or that the affair landed in the news while the season was airing, turning it into an interactive murder mystery of sorts, with viewers searching for clues in earlier episodes.
  — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Her recent activity on the platform, however, may have clued in inquiring minds.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2023
• Recent research into the true causes of depression is finding clues in other neurotransmitters and the realization that the brain is much more adaptable than scientists once imagined.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024