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Meanings of sleuth in English
Catalan
perdiguer Synonyms
Examples for "spy"
Examples for "spy"
1
New legislation governing New Zealand's spy agencies has been passed by Parliament.
2
None of my ladies would answer a question from an English spy.
3
Read: Trump adviser said microwaves were used to spy on the Donald.
4
The 54-year-old worked as a spy in Scandinavia, Africa and Western Europe.
5
Some American recruits had concerns about working for a foreign spy service.
1
In fact, he looked just like the royal stag in the picture.
2
They didn't seem to be on stag; they were far too casual.
3
The stag was the most magnificent animal the knight had ever seen.
4
We have had princely sport in hunting the stag on these mountains.
5
He'd been trying to help me when he went after the stag.
1
You made it way too easy for some snoop to get in.
2
I need you to come in and snoop around without raising suspicion.
3
So, the summer event is an opportunity to have a gratifying snoop.
4
Of course I see to it she doesn't snoop around in here.
5
Should we snoop around the hotel, asking about the father and son?
Usage of sleuth in English
1
Despite being a former sleuth, my sense of direction is sadly lacking.
2
Ronson's pose is that of the ingenue sleuth: Colombo with added neuroses.
3
Hartley took the leaf torn out of the sleuth's dingy memorandum book.
4
Emma shifted in the passenger seat and mentally assumed her sleuth mode.
5
I will hide my every movement from you, my marble-faced old sleuth.
6
He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth.
7
I'm ready to start out right now and sleuth until it's settled.
8
No one seeming to appreciate our sleuth's brilliant theory, he promptly left.
9
That my father would try to sleuth out the source of my behavior?
10
She should have updated her sleuth skills to include the latest technological advances.
11
Here, indeed, was a conundrum worthy of the mind of a master sleuth.
12
Now a private consultant, Wittman was the bureau's original art sleuth.
13
And a former teen sleuth with mixed motives, who manipulates people.
14
Pursued by the sleuth hounds of intolerance he fled to Geneva for protection.
15
Then in 1903, to please readers, he resuscitates the famous sleuth.
16
It doesn't take a sleuth, Maddy, to see the writing on the wall.
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Sleuth through the time
Sleuth across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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