Definition: 1. Evidence that helps to solve a problem. 2. A fact or a piece of evidence that helps you discover the answer to a problem.
Use 'clue' in a sentence:
1. Investigators are searching for clues at the scene of the crime.
2. How a man shaves may be a telling clue to his age.
3. That's my little clue.
4. Forensic experts searched the area for clues.
5. There are clues in the case.
6. Police searched the area for clues.
7. There was a vast distance between psychological clues and concrete proof.
8. Police searched for clues in the area.
9. Police have still found no clues as to the whereabouts of the missing woman.
10. This is the clue as to what is going on.
11. Geneticists in Canada have discovered a clue to the puzzle of why our cells get old and die.
12. The police are busy hunting for clues.
13. This gave me a clue as to the source of the problem.
14. A forensic team was hunting for clues.
15. What they find could provide clues to what might happen worldwide if ozone depletion continues.
16. We ended up in like the business part of London and we had no clue where we were.
17. He did provide one clue.
18. I haven't a clue what I'll give Carl for his birthday next year.
19. Seemingly inconsequential details can sometimes contain significant clues.
20. Another clue is the sort of smiles they give when they walk into the lab and see each other.
21. Diet may hold the clue to the causes of migraine.
22. The clue could not be followed up.
23. We've finally found the clue to the matter.
24. The police followed home the clue and finally caught the culprit.
25. I'm sorry, I haven't a clue.
26. The words themselves offer the clue as to when best to use them.
27. Don't ask him to do it—he doesn't have a clue!
28. No clue to his whereabouts has been found.
29. She spent hours poring over the text, searching for a clue that might help solve the case.
30. I hadn't a clue as to the meaning of "activism."
31. I don't have a clue where she lives.
32. He happened on a clue to the mystery.
33. Some past studies may also give us a clue.
34. The police think the videotape may hold some vital clues to the identity of the killer.
35. The only clue he has is a fossil.
36. That was the clue which clinched it for us.
37. I moved out to California without any clue about what I might do after graduation.
38. At last she found a clue to the puzzle.
39. The clue is implicit although he didn't say it.
40. This episode gave doctor Meyer her first clue to something every doctor learns sooner or later — most people just don't listen very well.
41. Fortunately, the clue is in the language itself.
42. The police were trying to chase down all possible clues to the murder.
43. He left a trail of clues at the scenes of his crimes.
44. The first real clue came when archaeologists discovered that skeletons of higher-status individuals tended to be several centimeters taller than those of people of lower states.
45. Herpin offered the only clue to his condition.
46. Give me a clue. What's it begin with?
47. We have no clue as to where she went after she left home.
48. Diet may hold a clue to the causes of headache.
49. We scoured the telephone directory for clues.
50. No clue to the mystery has been found.
51. The police combed the area for clues.
52. The vital clue to the killer's identity was his nickname, Peanuts.
