Suspicious means: Arousing suspicion. Related words include suspect or funny. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Suspicious in practice.
Suspicious in a sentence
Related words
Suspicious meaning
- Arousing suspicion.
- Distrustful or tending to suspect.
- Expressing suspicion
Synonyms of Suspicious
Example sentences (20)
Detectives are urging anyone who witnesses suspicious behaviour in their neighbourhoods to make contact on 131 444.
According to the REN TV channel, a suspicious substance was found in his apartment on Zaporozhskaya Street in Moscow.
Authorities investigating the death described it as “suspicious,” though they added it may have been an accident.
As well, numerous incidents of suspicious activity, near electrical-supply facilities, were reported to police.
A full-time security guard has been drafted in as well as a hi-tech system that picks up suspicious behaviour.
Charles’ attempts to rid himself of Elvira only lead to more problems and soon Ruth becomes suspicious of his behaviour.
Allenhurst officers responded to four incidents involving a suspicious person or vehicle during this time period as well.
Firewalls monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic, blocking suspicious or unauthorized access attempts.
A member of the public reported the "suspicious incident" in the Long Eaton area of Derbyshire on Wednesday.
As First Notice approaches, you can see there was a rather suspicious and large move down with 6 days to go.
As he was in the car, at about 4am on Saturday, July 15, a Leicestershire Police officer drove past and became suspicious.
At 9:13 p.m., officers responded to a residence on Andrews Street for a report of a suspicious circumstance.
A fire that tore through an abandoned school in Powerview-Pine Falls on Saturday, October 14, 2023, is being deemed suspicious.
After all, no one has ever been suspicious in the party of corrupt or covert contributions in the past.
Gun-control advocates say the move would help track suspicious sales tied to potential mass shootings.
Detectives are treating the death as suspicious and a man in his 20s from Margate was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of murder.
Emergency services were called and police found no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.
According to the experts, any bank would have been quite suspicious of anyone trying to deposit or exchange large amounts of dollars.
Deputies advise that you call 911 if you see suspicious activity or believe your mail was stolen.
At 8:18 p.m. police were dispatched to S. Sixth Ave. and U.S. Highway 6 for suspicious activity.
Common combinations with suspicious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- suspicious activity 34×
- suspicious of 16×
- as suspicious 15×
- for suspicious 14×
- any suspicious 13×
- of suspicious 12×
- the suspicious 8×
- suspicious and 7×
- be suspicious 7×
- is suspicious 6×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word suspicious. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.