Example sentences for: suspicious

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

  • I was, for one thing, suspicious of the media hype--to which we are now, of course, contributing--around these books, and I still dread the eventual movies and the inevitable merchandising frenzy that will follow.

  • Only one thing made me a little suspicious when cranking up the system: in the descriptive text that appears on the screen, the word labeled is spelt “labelled”—decidedly un-American.

  • Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

  • Contrary to persistent media reports, no financial institution filed a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR)-which U.S. law requires banks to file within 30 days of a suspicious transaction-with respect to any transaction of any of 19 hijackers before 9/11.

  • Kincaid's eccentric combination of suspicious narrative analysis and self-help, can-do enthusiasm may be just the Dale Carnegie twist these old ideas need.


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