How to Use suss in a Sentence

suss

verb

• In the new study, the same team attempted to suss out why.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 13 Oct. 2017
• Did any of you suss out his secret before the end of the episode?
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
• This can be a tricky thing for even doctors to suss out.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Jan. 2022
• Magpie took it as a taunt and tried to suss out the identity of the jerk who teased her.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2022
• This whole thing is hard to suss out for both them and as someone watching.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2020
• Will there now be a secret FGirl among the female suitors that the 13 Nice Guys have to suss out?
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• More work needs to be done to suss out the link between the virus and this phenomenon.
  — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• In the show, the town’s police do random stops and car searches to suss out monsters.
  — Vulture, 4 Aug. 2022
• Wall Street, which wasn’t actually that sussed about it in the first place.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 21 Mar. 2018
• Part of the fun of watching, in fact, is trying to suss out what’s fake and what’s authentic.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
• Now News Group posed three questions to the three candidates to suss out their plans for Franklin.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2020
• The New Yorker is back at the pool table, pacing the perimeter in white Reeboks to suss out her next shot.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2021
• Something about having Duncan suss out the pick-and-roll defense for the fourth game in a six-game road trip makes all the sense in the world.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 23 July 2019
• Really suss out the role and create a very clear and compelling job spec.
  — Bill Stauffer, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Who else is going to suss out those sweet, sweet truffles, after all?
  — Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 17 June 2021
• Why youth suicide rates are creeping up is harder to suss out.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 May 2018
• The site wasn’t able to suss out any additional details about the delay.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 Dec. 2020
• So there’s probably a dip in how well T cells can suss out Omicron, but not a massive one.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2021
• The root of the obsession with Prater’s identity is not difficult to suss out.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2021
• More than three decades later, however, and the truth is easier to suss out.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Have any of you been able to suss that out and approach these committee members to voice your frustration and anger?
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2021
• What follows is a kind of jerky dance in the round, as Garrick and Taylor suss out their suspect, and Winner does her best to both help and hinder the men.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• All of the meta stuff behind it just ended up sussing really well.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
• Researchers used hospital billing data to suss out the teen suicide trends over six years.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 16 May 2018
• If your body’s pulling that kind of unwelcome magic trick, your doctor should be able to suss out the problem and figure out how to treat it.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 June 2018
• Oliver wasn’t the only one trying to suss out the wiretappers’ motives.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• The app also asks a few questions to suss out any red flags that might indicate larger eye health issues.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 19 July 2021
• My read on this is that Boston sussed out that the Sixers were the mystery team who had tried to shut Thybulle down, dating back to before the draft combine.
  — Kaelen Jones, SI.com, 20 June 2019
• Along with opening this window into his father's life, Cushman is trying to suss out how the letters may end up in his own work.
  — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2023
• Two brothers find a mutilated corpse near their property and convene with the locals to suss it out.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024