How to Use suspicious in a Sentence

suspicious

adjective

• 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.
• The cops are suspicious and tell Walt and Henry to stick around.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 7 June 2024
• No one was injured in the blaze and the fire is not believed to be suspicious, Grace Munns, a city spokesperson, said in an e-mail to the Globe.
  — Jesús Marrero Suárez, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• The duo claimed to have permission from the owners of the business, but due to the hour, the officers were suspicious.
  — cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
• These posts are now seen as suspicious and a way to seek engagement.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 13 Aug. 2024
• The suspicious person identified by a sniper team was not the Abbey Gate bomber.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2024
• The Cannes press office confirmed that there was a suspicious package found on the street but not inside the Palais.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 May 2024
• 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
• Her husband spotted the shirt and became suspicious, causing the man to flee.
  — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• That's why a suspicious sighting has become a big deal.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Again, people had been suspicious of Cullen for a while, but his co-worker Amy Loughren was the person who really moved the case.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 26 Oct. 2022
• Foley gets suspicious when Billy doesn’t pick him up at the airport, and sure enough, a trio of thugs are at his friend’s apartment, tossing the place.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2024
• Both Herron and her coach, Conor Holt, have said to be suspicious of the findings due to what the claimed been a lack of transparency from track and field officials.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2022
• Be suspicious of anyone who references it in an email or phone call.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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
• In-han’s suspicious death is not the only thing shrouded in secrecy at Jooshin.
  — Kayti Burt, TIME, 7 June 2024
• 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
• In Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg entices us to be suspicious of escapist art.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 Dec. 2022
• Prosecutors said the bank failed for a decade to root out suspicious activities as required under the Bank Secrecy Act, the main anti-money-laundering law.
  — Christine Dobby, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024