Example sentences for: suspects

How can you use “suspects” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A separate Times item reports that yesterday morning Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala foiled an attempt to rob her at a bank ATM and gave the police a getaway car license plate that directly led to the arrest of three suspects in the crime.

  • Back to the Arkansas shootings for a sec: The papers, having learned the suspects' names from school sources, opt to use them rather than invoking the usual juvenile court practice of anonymity.

  • Because air carriers implement the program, concerns about sharing intelligence information with private firms and foreign countries keep the U.S.government from listing all terrorist and terrorist suspects who should be included.

  • Framed by a dystopic post-World War II South Africa--where the economy has moved from rural to urban, Afrikaner nationalists have risen to power, and apartheid is testing its wings--the story airs these larger happenings through the muggy lives of its young protagonist (the book spans years 10 through 13) and his family: his father, a nonpracticing attorney whom he despises; his mother, who is too close to him and to whom he is too close; and a younger brother, who he suspects may, at heart, be normal.

  • The Los Angeles Times has its very own storm to lead with, a widening police scandal, called by the paper the city's worst in 60 years, featuring allegations of shooting unarmed suspects, planting weapons on suspects and of drug dealing and sending at least one person to prison on totally false court testimony.


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