suspected
Definition:
1. Believed likely.
Use 'suspected' in a sentence:
- 1. He suspected that the woman staying in the flat above was using heroin.
- 2. Many foods are suspected of being detrimental to health because of the chemicals and additives they contain.
- 3. Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a Mexican truck.
- 4. Two security guards tackled and apprehended a man suspected of robbing 17 banks.
- 5. It was perfectly all right, he said, because the police had not suspected him of anything.
- 6. Agents regularly rounded up suspected subversives.
- 7. No one suspected the anguish he carried on his shoulders.
- 8. No illegality is suspected.
- 9. All traffic is suspected and is not allowed to enter the LAN.
- 10. Charges had already been made against certain officials suspected of disloyalty.
- 11. Even if you had never suspected that this is what was going on when leaves turn red, there are clues out there.
- 12. Methods Seventy-five patients with clinically suspected appendicitis underwent barium enema double contrast examination.
- 13. Police are investigating the suspected drug ring at the school.
- 14. He assured her that he had suspected the boy from the beginning.
- 15. The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.
- 16. The males suspected to have induced inversions were later used to build up stocks.
- 17. The fair coordinator has been given powers to expel suspected troublemakers.
- 18. They have been arrested as suspected drug traffickers.
- 19. A case of suspected food poisoning in a kindergarten in Liaoning Province has led to several children being sent to hospital.
- 20. They remorselessly beat up anyone they suspected of supporting the opposition.
- 21. He is thought to have planned a prison breakout of militants suspected of the July bombing.
- 22. If you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.
- 23. Steinberg suspected this tendency could also have its advantages.
- 24. The drug is suspected of causing over 200 deaths.
- 25. The bodies were identified as those of two suspected drug dealers.
- 26. He suspected that he was just a meal ticket for her.
- 27. As I had suspected all along, he was not a real policeman.
- 28. I suspected her motives in offering to help.
- 29. The police suspected poisoning.
- 30. A Machiavellian plot was suspected.
- 31. He resigned after being suspected of theft.
- 32. She suspected that secret influences were at work.
- 33. Military officers were suspected of plotting a coup.
- 34. The legislation provides for the detention of suspected terrorists for up to seven days.