SUSPECT in a Sentence

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For SUSPECT, below is one of 276 sentences:
In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUSPECT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suspect
 v.  have doubts about; distrust
 v.  think that someone has committed a crime
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It would never do for Mammy to suspect that anything was wrong.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  You look very presentable now," she said, "and I don't think anyone will suspect you've been up to your tricks unless you brag about them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  But Scarlett loitered, wondering how to bring up the subject of Ashley without permitting Gerald to suspect her motive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  No one would suspect that she had ever been downhearted because of Ashley and Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  But they'd suspect it was your bedroom and that's just as bad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  It was annoying the way Melly always misconstrued her motives--but perhaps that was far preferable to having her suspect the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Never, never must Melanie see or suspect how she felt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  No one, looking at her now, would suspect that poverty and want were standing at her shoulder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  It would never do for Frank to suspect she had seen Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  As it was, he didn't know enough about women even to suspect what she was up to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  Ashley would never suspect that she would even think of doing anything so immoral.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  She simply left the brunt of the situation on her husband's hands, as if too absorbed in a grievance of her own to suspect that she might be the object of one herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
13  Matter of fact, I suspect they were largely responsible for his locating here.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
15  Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity, that I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any mere tricks of the stage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
16  Police destroyed the suspect package in a controlled explosion.
17  She was unable to make a positive identification of the suspect.
18  Most people don't, I suspect, realize this.
19  The suspect is detained at the police station.
20  The theory is rendered suspect by its reliance on now discredited sources.
21  In violation of the Miranda law, the policemen grill the suspect for several hours before reading him his rights.
22  Jordan tonight announced that his group arrested the prime suspect in last week's rocket attack.
23  They suspect that new company is operating in the area, but don't know its name.
24  The district attorney didn't want to indict the suspect until she was sure she had a strong enough case to convince a jury.
25  The detectives followed the suspect until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot.
26  What do you do if your suspect your granite is radioactive?
27  A wealthy heiress is murdered aboard a luxury cruise liner, and everyone's a suspect.
28  I should say I also suspect the sheriff is the serial killer of gangbangers.
29  The police have kept the nightclub under surveillance because of suspected illegal drug activity.
30  As I had suspected all along, he was not a real policeman.