Example Sentences

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Sleuths are able to track the shipments, however, by following occasional pings from the shadow ships’ transponders, which are sometimes turned on for safety to navigate narrow straits.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Sleuths in the Beyhive subsequently discovered that this is a reference to the star's ancestral surname: Her maternal grandparents were called Beyincé - but the spelling was changed on her mother Tina's birth certificate.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024

Sleuths realized that Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, haven’t been spotted since Kensington Palace announced her surgery.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2024

Sleuths, some of them admittedly obsessed by the case, still flock to online discussion boards to trade hypotheses.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024

The most famous cases of the great Sleuths of England, America, France, Russia, realistically told, with biographical sketches of each detective.

From The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service by Driscoll, James R. [pseud.]