Sentence examples for a key clue from inspiring English sources

There's a key clue there in that phrase "first-time smartphone users".

"The Kerameikos is a key clue to his story and to the story of Athens' Golden Age.

The location of the shattered plastic — a good distance from the crosswalk — provided a key clue to Detective Saporito.

Two facts give us a key clue: (1) because no airline pilot held hostage would deliberately crash into a building, at least three killers were pilots trained to operate a large jet airliner.

Cassini will also search for any hint of salt in the spray, a key clue to both chemical reactions in the depths and how the ocean stays liquid so far from the sun.

Correction: August 4, 2004, Wednesday An obituary on Friday about Francis H. C. Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, misstated the cause of death for Dr. Rosalind Franklin, another DNA researcher whose data provided a key clue.

Starting with a chief complaint or key clue, the physician moves along this decision tree, directed one of two ways by each new piece of information, and eliminates diagnoses.

The key clue, however, was a discarded caulking tube bearing the fingerprint of a window installer who worked at an industrial park in Anaheim, which led to the location of the industrial trash bin where Estepp's body had been discarded.

In a general sense, every work of literary art requires a key or clue to the artist's preoccupations (the jail in Dickens; the mysterious tyrants in Kafka, both leading back to the author's own father), but the true roman à clef is more particular in its disguised references.

Schweickert finally got his key clue when his son googled "Frank A. Harris" and came across a 1962 obituary, listing Frank Cook as one of the survivors.

One key clue to figure out which your child is doing (avoiding a situation or seeking attention) is if your child consistently "misbehaves" given a particular scenario.