How to Use suss in a Sentence

suss

verb
Definition of sussnext
  • In the new study, the same team attempted to suss out why.
    — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Did any of you suss out his secret before the end of the episode?
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
  • This can be a tricky thing for even doctors to suss out.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Magpie took it as a taunt and tried to suss out the identity of the jerk who teased her.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2022
  • This whole thing is hard to suss out for both them and as someone watching.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Will there now be a secret FGirl among the female suitors that the 13 Nice Guys have to suss out?
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • More work needs to be done to suss out the link between the virus and this phenomenon.
    — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • In the show, the town’s police do random stops and car searches to suss out monsters.
    — Vulture, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Wall Street, which wasn’t actually that sussed about it in the first place.
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Part of the fun of watching, in fact, is trying to suss out what’s fake and what’s authentic.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Now News Group posed three questions to the three candidates to suss out their plans for Franklin.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The New Yorker is back at the pool table, pacing the perimeter in white Reeboks to suss out her next shot.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2021
  • Something about having Duncan suss out the pick-and-roll defense for the fourth game in a six-game road trip makes all the sense in the world.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 23 July 2019
  • Really suss out the role and create a very clear and compelling job spec.
    — Bill Stauffer, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Who else is going to suss out those sweet, sweet truffles, after all?
    — Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 17 June 2021
  • Why youth suicide rates are creeping up is harder to suss out.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 May 2018
  • The site wasn’t able to suss out any additional details about the delay.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 Dec. 2020
  • So there’s probably a dip in how well T cells can suss out Omicron, but not a massive one.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The root of the obsession with Prater’s identity is not difficult to suss out.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2021
  • More than three decades later, however, and the truth is easier to suss out.
    — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Have any of you been able to suss that out and approach these committee members to voice your frustration and anger?
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2021
  • What follows is a kind of jerky dance in the round, as Garrick and Taylor suss out their suspect, and Winner does her best to both help and hinder the men.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • All of the meta stuff behind it just ended up sussing really well.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Researchers used hospital billing data to suss out the teen suicide trends over six years.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 16 May 2018
  • If your body’s pulling that kind of unwelcome magic trick, your doctor should be able to suss out the problem and figure out how to treat it.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 June 2018
  • Oliver wasn’t the only one trying to suss out the wiretappers’ motives.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • The app also asks a few questions to suss out any red flags that might indicate larger eye health issues.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 19 July 2021
  • My read on this is that Boston sussed out that the Sixers were the mystery team who had tried to shut Thybulle down, dating back to before the draft combine.
    — Kaelen Jones, SI.com, 20 June 2019
  • Throughout the hearing, lawmakers continued to suss out how much blame to lay at Azar's feet.
    — Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
  • Like most companies, the gaming-software firm wanted to suss out which investors would stick with them for long haul.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2021

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