Suspects
['səspɛkt]
Examples
- One suspects at times that our national cult of optimism is no real feeling that the world is good, but a fear that pessimism will produce panics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He suspects that we are detectives, I suggested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Grant, I believe, suspects him of a preference for Julia; I have never seen much symptom of it, but I wish it may be so. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Who suspects him? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Laura never saw him--Laura suspects nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Rick mistrusts and suspects me--goes to lawyers, and is taught to mistrust and suspect me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And she suspects that past time of ours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am the man that was his pardner, and I am the man that suspects him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In like manner, it was at Louisville that Mr. Edison got an insight into the manner in which great political speeches are more frequently reported than the public suspects. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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