Sentence examples for suspicion like from inspiring English sources

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Some have escaped suspicion, like the top two finishers in this election.

His passport was being renewed at the local registration office, and he feared that without documentation he would fall under suspicion like his younger brother, Aslan.

He's big and gruff and dark (much is made of how Indian he looks), held back in school and treated with suspicion like his father.

The Brown Owls and Snowy Owls swooped on it but us young Imps, Elves and Pixies eyed it with deep suspicion, like we would blue cheese.

Remember Claude Rains's terrifying mother, in "Notorious" (1946), slipping something nasty into his wife's coffee, or the glowing glass of milk that Cary Grant takes upstairs to Joan Fontaine, in "Suspicion," like a poisoned chalice.

But clouds of suspicion, like beauty, are in the eyes of the beholder, and Mr. Zuma appears to have correctly determined that most of his countrymen either observe no cumuli of criminality or think the shadows no big deal.

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The boy, who has used his suspicion and distrust like armour to survive the three months since leaving home in Afghanistan, is not mollified.

His very accessibility rouses suspicions, like the too-friendly approaches of an oddly dressed stranger.

"I have my suspicions like everybody else," the 41-year-old Glavine said.

But certain telltale signs raise suspicions, like the long tongue drawn on his face and the X's across his eyes.

Unfortunately, it's become difficult to talk about hunches and suspicions like these outside the pages of, say, Doug Henwood's Left Business Observer.

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