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Example sentences for "suspect"

Lexicographically close words:
susceptible; susceptive; susceptum; suscipe; sush; suspecte; suspected; suspecting; suspects; suspence
  1. I suspect they thought we wanted Fanny for "chop.

  2. Of course, you suspect it is not a bit like that.

  3. I suspect Miss Rasmith has been idealizing the situation.

  4. Ah," Breckon laughed, "I suspect that I should rather have him unjust.

  5. The reader may begin to suspect that I was fast going mad; and I believe I was.

  6. I suspect he keeps a precious sharp eye upon the fair Miss Lillian.

  7. I began to suspect and hate her, as a proud, harsh, and exclusive aristocrat.

  8. As for the devil, Novalis, indeed, had gone so far as to suspect him to be a necessary illusion.

  9. I did not suspect that I possessed powers above the mass.

  10. Let therefore this "Conservative Reaction" which I suspect is going on in the minds of many young men at Cambridge, consider what it has to conserve.

  11. Really, my good fellow, how can you wonder if our friends suspect you?

  12. They suspect them to be mere tubs to the whale--mere substitutes for education, slowly and late adopted, in order to stop the mouths of the importunate.

  13. Perhaps it sprung also, as I began to suspect in the first hundred yards of our walk, from the desire of showing off before me the university clothes, manners, and gossip, which he had just brought back with him from Cambridge.

  14. The capabilities which I saw in you made me suspect that those below might be more nearly my equals than I had yet fancied.

  15. She did not like to suspect him of impertinence, or even something worse; yet--what had he implied?

  16. That's high-faluting, it's talk of that sort which makes me suspect that you must be even worse than I supposed.

  17. No one must suspect that we know each other.

  18. In a word, did France suspect what had happened to La Liberté, and, if so, how much did she know?

  19. The President, so ingenuous and child-like, must never suspect the truth!

  20. No one could suspect that; besides, even if they did, they would not come hammering here in the middle of the night.

  21. The powder in all French magazines was overhauled, and that which there was any reason to suspect was destroyed.

  22. They suspect something--how much we do not know.

  23. I suspect that something is wrong here," and he touched his forehead.

  24. But I suspect he was letting his Gallic imagination run away with him when he got on the subject of spies.

  25. Do not let them suspect that you have fear!

  26. Those men must not know that we suspect them.

  27. He did not suspect that the time would come when he would echo them!

  28. A certain gentleman goes to Nancy on the fourteenth of July, which happens to be the date of the French national fête; he is reported as suspect and his premises are visited and searched.

  29. So I thought and thought--I thought if I had a friend whom I could trust absolutely, whom no one would suspect of possessing it, I might entrust it to him.

  30. Yes, I suspect the T stands for Tecumseh.

  31. To know that she had failed hurt her pride, and it hurt worse to suspect that her father had got angry because he knew she was right.

  32. Then he reflected with some amusement that he need not bother much about deceiving the enemy, since Galdar's friends would not suspect that Buccaneer Askew had knowingly chosen the losing side.

  33. There was no obvious reason for his doing so, but he had begun to suspect that Hayes was not as devoted to his interests as he had thought.

  34. I never knew, but suspect it was something against the laws of his country.

  35. I suspect he's backing Bell and now he means to use his nephew; it's not altogether for Richardson's sake he wants to break your lease.

  36. I know they are not going well and suspect they get worse; but he will not tell me.

  37. Although I don't know much about his ancestors and suspect that one was an Indian, Alvarez is white, but the other fellow's a blamed poor sample of the half-breed nigger.

  38. I suspect he had no talent for narrative; but it seemed to afford him sombre satisfaction to declare that he was the last man to ride over the bridge of the river Elster after the battle of Leipsic.

  39. I suspect that he was shocked at my neglect of parental duties.

  40. In addition, the village lying at a great distance from the line of French retreat, they could not suspect the presence of stragglers from the Grand Army.

  41. She had, indeed, an adviser whom her mother had provided for her, though without allowing her to suspect the nature or full extent of the duties which she had imposed upon him.

  42. I protest to you, my dear mamma, that my heart would be torn by the idea that you could for a moment suspect his good-will in what has been done.

  43. He bad been led to suspect that his own father, the late dauphin, had been poisoned, and that Choiseul had been accessory to the crime.

  44. But I suspect him of being a very dishonest man; and confidence would not be established with him for comptroller.

  45. The police, and even the guardhouses, were attacked in open day, and the Government had reason to suspect that the money which was employed in fomenting the tumults was supplied by the Duc d'Orléans.

  46. As if Feistmantel could suspect anything!

  47. Perhaps you can tell me how many people in Berlin--suspect it?

  48. No human being can suspect anything," she repeated several times.

  49. It was my fault; but how could I suspect it?

  50. It can be no enlightenment to him, and the fact that he would not suspect us of any reluctance to make the most of our power, strengthens our ability to deal with him.

  51. Knew them all as men of good character, and as they had newly ridden in, saw no reason to suspect more than one in case the fire was not accidental.

  52. The sergeant would never suspect your presence there.

  53. Who could suspect in such a slender and fragile person the power she possesses to banish gloom and poverty?

  54. He was a good man, and it made me feel bad even to suspect him.

  55. But, although I have said we were now in safety, I suspect that few of my readers would have envied our position.

  56. After his appointment to the Glasgow chair in 1860, Lister had continued his researches on inflammation; and he had long been led to suspect that decomposition of the blood in the wound was the main cause of suppuration.

  57. Thus, ladies, may it fare with those who wrongfully suspect their wives of evil.

  58. At the same time," said Oisille, "people ought to suspect the evil that is to be avoided, for it is better to suspect an evil that does not exist than by foolish trustfulness to fall into one that does.

  59. And the dread I have lest those who have seen you come in should suspect the truth, makes me tremble and be afraid as you see.

  60. Many men make of them what they suspect them to be, for a virtuous woman is more readily overcome by despair than by all the pleasures on earth.

  61. Remote till now from all contact with women, he did not even suspect all the significance for himself of this intense realisation of a woman's soul.

  62. And that she is not so base as you suspect is shown by the fact that she has delayed until to-day to tell me of this loss, dreading, as she hath told me, to put you wrong in my eyes.

  63. Nor do I care to act to the end that you may not suspect me of being fit for hanging.

  64. I suppose that in a small place like this we all know a great deal more about each other than we suspect each other of knowing.

  65. You mustn't spoil me or manage me; if I ever suspect you of doing that, I'll just go back to Cambridge alone.

  66. Maud doesn't suspect his strength, and I can't have her broken in.

  67. I suspect that they largely owed their origin to the form and dimensions of the ordinary Parisian kitchen stove, which did not enable people to roast poultry at home in a convenient way.

  68. Personally I may confess to a preference, which I suspect most readers will share, for getting this precise form of whimsical romance from the original firm; but there is more than enough spirit in G.

  69. I don't know him," replied la Peyrade; "I only suspect him.

  70. I know they were as thick as peas--in fact, I suspect Shepley helped the supercargo to hide away on board.

  71. But lately things have happened which have caused my father to suspect this supercargo.

  72. They found that Nature was guilty of neutrality in human affairs if they did not go further and suspect her of enmity.

  73. I suspect that those rushing companions are not merely bent on food but have chosen out one individual insect for their pursuit like a ball in a game.

  74. Loisy may be taken as an advanced representative; while Professor Schmiedel may rank as an exponent too advanced to be otherwise than suspect for some of the school.

  75. Loisy, I trust, will not suspect me of classing them with men many of whom are as hostile to them as to the thesis which those scholars seek by rational methods to confute.

  76. He told me plainly that it was his interest to let my husband and all my neighbours believe the falsehood--because, as long as they did so they were quite certain never to suspect the truth.

  77. I did not suspect the Count of any impropriety--I knew his moral character too well.

  78. Do you suspect the people in charge of her of closing their eyes purposely, at the instance of some enemy who could afford to make it worth their while?

  79. I accuse nobody, and I suspect nothing," she broke out abruptly.

  80. I DON'T suspect him of being Anne's father.

  81. We have got him close under our eye here in London, and we strongly suspect he had something to do with helping her in the first instance to escape from the Asylum.

  82. At the same time, I suspect him of merely attempting to frighten you, by threatening what he cannot really do.

  83. You don't suspect me of doing anything wrong, do you?

  84. Did she ever suspect whose child the little girl brought to her at Limmeridge might be?

  85. She is sharp enough to suspect something, and bold enough to come downstairs and listen, if she can get the chance.

  86. I suspect there must have been a ruinous cutting down of timber all over the estate before Sir Percival's time, and an angry anxiety on the part of the next possessor to fill up all the gaps as thickly and rapidly as possible.

  87. I know some things about him, and I suspect many more.

  88. If I find the least reason to suspect that I am watched, I will take good care that no spy follows me back to this house.


  89. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suspect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurd; accused; ambiguous; arguable; assume; believe; challenge; conceive; conclude; conjectural; conjecture; consider; contest; controversial; correspondent; daresay; debatable; deduce; deem; defendant; disbelieve; discredited; disputable; dispute; disputed; distrust; divine; doubt; doubtful; dream; dubious; equivocal; esteem; estimate; expect; exploded; fancy; fear; feel; fishy; gather; grant; guess; hold; imagine; implicate; inconceivable; incredible; infer; judge; let; maintain; mistrust; moot; opine; prefigure; preposterous; presume; presuppose; prisoner; problematic; problematical; queer; query; question; questionable; reckon; regard; repute; respondent; ridiculous; say; scruple; sense; shady; shaky; speculative; suppose; surmise; suspect; suspicion; suspicious; take; tall; thick; thin; think; unbelievable; unclear; unconvincing; understand; unearthly; uneasy; ungodly; unimaginable; unstable; unthinkable