How to Use sleuth in a Sentence

sleuth

1 of 2 noun
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  • Patinkin’s sleuth is on a swanky Mediterranean cruise when there’s a murder.
    — Nina Metz, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Be prepared to get your sleuth on because The Masked Singer Australia is back in 2023.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Be prepared to get your sleuth on because The Masked Singer Australia is back.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Internet sleuths point to the weird way his boots fit and his apparent struggle to walk in them.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • One sleuth said there was a small chance that the park still had a case incident report, and gave me a contact at the ranger’s station.
    — A.j. Jacobs, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • This, Louis and his fellow sleuths decided, was a crime of passion.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 25 May 2023
  • The cast, save for Daniel Craig’s gentleman sleuth, has been rotated out as well.
    — Vulture, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But later that day, a lucky sleuth had unraveled the mystery, found the bill and pocketed it.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
  • The shooter and the sleuth both know open looks will become harder and harder as Kosakowski climbs to the top of scouting reports.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The romance between our very proper sleuths is not quite a slow burn – more a sedate simmer.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2023
  • The sleuth deputized Thomas as a guide and headed north, toward West End Avenue.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
  • My sleuth side sees dreams as not a mere escape from the logic or hardships or realities of the day but rather a world in the making.
    — Jenny Boully, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Full of twists and turns, Rachel Price is sure to turn every reader into an amateur sleuth.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Viewers have enjoyed the amateur sleuth road trip Walter and Misty are on.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Soon, both the police and an army of Internet sleuths are asking questions Bree doesn’t know how to answer.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Viewers may notice that the case-of-the-week format, in which the sleuth notices things the police don’t, isn’t exactly carving out new ground.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Seraphina tells the tale of a young sleuth investigating to find the truth while hiding behind her own unique gift.
    — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 6 July 2023
  • Upon learning of a mystery novel with Georgia O’Keeffe as sleuth, my first thought was: Why?
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The post said the details of the theft matched up to the tips and information the team received from other Beatles fans and internet sleuths.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Many were turned in by their friends, co-workers, online sleuths and even family members.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Tiktok sleuths are already on the case, sharing theories on the platform.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And a recipe advice columnist gets a turn as a job in pop culture, with a murder mystery show featuring a cook turned sleuth.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Like so many onscreen sleuths before her, Darby suffers from the habit of caring too much about her cases.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
  • With no suspects emerging and police pleading for tips, thousands of online sleuths went to work.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Fans and industry experts chimed in, and in less than 24 hours, a horde of social media sleuths had found the answer and contacted the writers who made the song.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Brit told me that one of the purposes of the flashbacks is to prove to the audience that this young woman has the capacity to be an effective sleuth in the present.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Some sleuths and people interested in the case say the voices are similar.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 28 July 2023
  • These internet sleuths hope to answer many questions, some which sound pretty far-fetched.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • One question surrounding the Somerton Man had already been solved by sleuths of a more literary bent.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The series of events — and its twisting threads — have evolved almost as if penned in a crime novel, captivating sleuths and true crime connoisseurs around the world.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
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sleuth

2 of 2 verb
  • The Nancy Drew fan in me decided to sleuth around a bit.
    — Country Living, 21 June 2011
  • Doty and her colleagues are now sleuthing out the gene that enables PDN3 to accomplish this feat.
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
  • In other words, the challenge was on to sleuth out magical realms.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The birth of eBay signaled an entirely new way of sleuthing out vintage gear.
    — Nick Sullivan, Esquire, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The tests were designed to sleuth out the tastiest versions of meats or crops that were raised at far higher rates than they were consumed.
    — Michael Waters, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2019
  • But that's not all some social media sleuthing revealed.
    — Lindsey V Thompson, Teen Vogue, 1 June 2018
  • The easiest way to sleuth out the life cycle of a parasite is to present it with potential hosts, just as Dykman did with the worms in the kelp bass.
    — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • And yet, that didn't stop them from immediately sleuthing through her lyrics to find connections to Joe.
    — Women's Health, 10 Apr. 2023
  • On Facebook, locals were already sleuthing, trying to figure out who the sick person was.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Several sleuthing fans have pointed out an error on some of the singer’s new merchandise.
    — Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 6 June 2019
  • Students and physicists traveled to the Netherlands to sleuth out a Vermeer masterpiece.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020
  • Serious collectors sleuth online for hard-to-find species and travel around the country to auctions and plant shows.
    — Hannah Holland, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • But Young’s sister had done her homework to ensure she’d made the right choice, sleuthing out the breed Young was partial to and even catching him in conversation about dog names.
    — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 8 May 2018
  • In the wake of the Dubai scandal, Ammann’s sleuthing uncovered two distinct players in the elephant-export racket.
    — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
  • And despite finally learning the name of Kylie's new baby — Stormi Webster — the Internet still cannot stop sleuthing for hints about the origin of the unique moniker.
    — Melissa Minton, Teen Vogue, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Players were given 20 different repair orders and asked to sleuth out what specific part was causing the problem, fix it, and then test the fix on the road.
    — Michael Thomsen, Wired, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Knight's mission was to sleuth out a new fossil site on a flank of the mountain that paleontologists hadn't yet explored.
    — Kate Siber, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Obviously, Taylor's sleuthing fans know that nothing the singer does is without meaning, and many assumed that the typo was on purpose.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 June 2019
  • They were sold two years ago, but in the meantime, Trevor had sleuthed a rustic compound based around an honest-to-goodness Craftsman Sears kit house of the sort that sprang up all across America at the turn of the century.
    — Oberto Gili, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The organization was able to sleuth out who the money was from because the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had recently highlighted their work in an Instagram post.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Meredith marches into the research room and slumps down at a table with DeLuca, who has been sleuthing around all day, openly disobeying Bailey’s orders to stay home and get rest.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Upon closer inspection, though, some sleuthing fans on Reddit got one step ahead of the rest of us and noticed something unusual: a huge ad for the drug Revival covering the side of a city building.
    — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Since the start of the war, online users have tried to sleuth out the brands Zelenskyy relies on—with California label 5.11 and Austrian Carinthia products among his outfit staples.
    — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 9 May 2022
  • On Twitter, armchair sleuths with hundreds of thousands of followers use tracking software to expose crypto scams.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Ballantyne’s next challenge is to sleuth out the mechanisms that accelerated Pliocene sea ice melting.
    — Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • Poker allows researchers to test algorithmic strategies for dealing with the unknown and to build the foundations for software that can sleuth out fraud and deception in real-world settings.
    — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Earlier efforts to sleuth out streaming ratings have faced criticism.
    — John Koblin, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Veterinarians first identified influenza D in pigs in 2011 and later sleuthed out the virus’s primary host: cattle.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Sometimes these creators sleuth to identify racists and people spreading disinformation about topics like the Covid vaccines.
    — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Researchers have to sleuth out whether that fish could physically make that sound, either by listening to existing recordings or speculating how the fish’s sonic muscles might produce noise.
    — Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020

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