How to Use sleuth in a Sentence

sleuth

1 of 2 noun

• Student sleuths searched for clues.
  — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
• Williams herself had to become a sleuth to write the book.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
• That wasn’t the only item of note internet sleuths found.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 1 Apr. 2026
• The morbid scene was quite a shock for our trio of sleuths, and for audiences.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Patinkin’s sleuth is on a swanky Mediterranean cruise when there’s a murder.
  — Nina Metz, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
• Online sleuths think you guys pulled the look of those quotes from Revolut.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 Feb. 2026
• 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
• For the first four episodes of Wednesday's second season, the teenage sleuth has had a lot on her plate.
  — EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• 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
• This, Louis and his fellow sleuths decided, was a crime of passion.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 25 May 2023
• Many were turned in by their friends, co-workers, online sleuths and even family members.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• Ella Maisy Purvis is fantastic as the sleuth.
  — Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2026
• These internet sleuths hope to answer many questions, some which sound pretty far-fetched.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
• But later that day, a lucky sleuth had unraveled the mystery, found the bill and pocketed it.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
• With no suspects emerging and police pleading for tips, thousands of online sleuths went to work.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• Internet sleuths have also been digging up the posts and leaving fresh comments.
  — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
• 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
• The cast, save for Daniel Craig’s gentleman sleuth, has been rotated out as well.
  — Vulture, 23 Nov. 2022
• Tiktok sleuths are already on the case, sharing theories on the platform.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
• Though there's been no formal tour announcement, online sleuths are putting two and two together.
  — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
• Online sleuths have attempted to identify this trader with no luck.
  — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Anecdotally, some of these LinkedIn sleuths found some stark results.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2025
• 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
• Some sleuths and people interested in the case say the voices are similar.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 28 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• The video went viral, internet sleuths did their thing, and their identities were splashed across every gossip rag in town.
  — Carolyn Burt, Oc Register, 28 Oct. 2025

sleuth

2 of 2 verb

• 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
• But a lucky devil gets to revel By sleuthing the perfect angle.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2017
• Several sleuthing fans have pointed out an error on some of the singer’s new merchandise.
  — Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 6 June 2019
• 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
• This sexy rivals-to-lovers whodunnit is bursting with sleuthing shenanigans and all your favorite tropes.
  — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
• Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have lingered from decades to centuries.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
• Everybody sleuthed out that the Chrisleys are the Croissants.
  — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• On Facebook, locals were already sleuthing, trying to figure out who the sick person was.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2020
• And yet, that didn't stop them from immediately sleuthing through her lyrics to find connections to Joe.
  — Women's Health, 10 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The hours of sleuthing the world’s largest online retailer for covetable candle holders, throw pillows, and serving bowls have paid off.
  — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2026
• Doty and her colleagues are now sleuthing out the gene that enables PDN3 to accomplish this feat.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Earlier efforts to sleuth out streaming ratings have faced criticism.
  — John Koblin, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
• Women will literally sleuth at an expert level on the fly instead of going to therapy.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Students and physicists traveled to the Netherlands to sleuth out a Vermeer masterpiece.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020
• The hours of sleuthing the world’s largest online retailer for its Prime Day deals under $100 has finally paid off.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
• The hours of sleuthing the world’s largest online retailer for its Prime Day deals under $100 has finally paid off.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
• 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
• Far from the mortal enemies they are destined to become, the pair become friends and combine sleuthing skills to try and solve a globe-trotting mystery that unfolds over the eight episodes.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Ballantyne’s next challenge is to sleuth out the mechanisms that accelerated Pliocene sea ice melting.
  — Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
• Sometimes these creators sleuth to identify racists and people spreading disinformation about topics like the Covid vaccines.
  — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2021
• The hours of sleuthing the world’s largest online retailer for its early Prime Day deals under $100 has finally paid off, and the sale hasn’t even kicked off yet.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 16 June 2026
• The hours of sleuthing the world’s largest online retailer for its early Prime Day deals under $100 has finally paid off, and the sale hasn’t even kicked off yet.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 2 June 2026
• The adventures and sleuthing that follow, however, are mostly in family friendly territory.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
• 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