Sentence examples for suspicious someone from inspiring English sources

I could not have imagined that, had I stayed, like so many of my friends, I would have had to destroy my library for fear of the police, since in those terrible days one could be accused of subversion merely for being seen with a book that looked suspicious (someone I knew was arrested as a communist for carrying with him "The Red and the Black").

A suspicious person, he explained, was someone carrying a big bag, and he added, smiling at a reporter, "Or else it's someone like you, who comes around asking a lot of questions but doesn't eat or drink anything".

But simply "looking suspicious" in someone's eyes shouldn't give that person the right to put his hands on you.

We're suspicious of someone sitting behind a desk telling us something".

I'm always a little suspicious when someone doesn't like to cook, but wants to be a designer.

Although the left is suspicious of someone who made his money in the oil industry, he earns admiration for hard work and a sharp mind.

"Once she got the inkling that Tenn was beginning to get suspicious of someone, she would pee in his ear," Rader says.

Nicholas had been gone for only three years, and the F.B.I. was not primed to be suspicious of someone claiming to be a missing child.

Mr. Harrison said he was automatically suspicious of someone like Mayor Giuliani, who made his mark south of New York's Mason-Dixon line.

Many Liberals share those doubts about an outsider in the prime minister's office, and are suspicious of someone with such shallow roots in the party.

In 51 pages of confidential police documents released by the college on Wednesday, various instructors, students and others described Mr. Loughner as "creepy," "very hostile," "suspicious" and someone who had a "dark personality".