How to Use suss in a Sentence

suss

verb
  • Those were the two elements that was hard to suss.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Did any of you suss out his secret before the end of the episode?
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
  • This whole thing is hard to suss out for both them and as someone watching.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Why youth suicide rates are creeping up is harder to suss out.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 May 2018
  • Who else is going to suss out those sweet, sweet truffles, after all?
    — Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 17 June 2021
  • 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
  • Really suss out the role and create a very clear and compelling job spec.
    — Bill Stauffer, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Experts are still trying to suss out when and how, exactly, the virus moved from one place to the next.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • All of the meta stuff behind it just ended up sussing really well.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Lawyers for both sides have attempted to suss out potential bias with their own litmus tests.
    — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The site wasn’t able to suss out any additional details about the delay.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 Dec. 2020
  • More than three decades later, however, and the truth is easier to suss out.
    — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Researchers used hospital billing data to suss out the teen suicide trends over six years.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 16 May 2018
  • Anyone of a reasonable mind can suss out whether an online remark is toxic or not.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 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
  • 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
  • Need to suss out the secret real identity of your music teacher?
    — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The platform offers many hints and one surefire way to suss out impersonators.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • But sussing out the big news in bridal, which wrapped just last week, requires quite a different perspective.
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 19 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Oliver wasn’t the only one trying to suss out the wiretappers’ motives.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 14 June 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 root of the obsession with Prater’s identity is not difficult to suss out.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Throughout the hearing, lawmakers continued to suss out how much blame to lay at Azar's feet.
    — Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
  • 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

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