INTERROGATE in a Sentence

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The count looked at Mercedes as if to interrogate her, but she continued to walk on in silence, and he refrained from speaking.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERROGATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
interrogate
 v.  question closely; examine by questioning formally or officially
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Rapid as had been Villefort's glance, it had served to give him an idea of the man he was about to interrogate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
2  Villefort bowed, and advancing a few steps, waited until the king should interrogate him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. The King's Closet at the Tuileries.
3  The count looked at Mercedes as if to interrogate her, but she continued to walk on in silence, and he refrained from speaking.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 71. Bread and Salt.
4  There was something grave and solemn in the approach of the young girl which struck the old man, and immediately his bright eye began to interrogate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
5  Noirtier's look continued to interrogate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
6  de la Tremouille to interrogate him himself.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
7  The commissary then, instead of continuing to interrogate him, made him a long speech upon the danger there is for an obscure citizen to meddle with public matters.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
8  Athos may always be found," replied Treville, "ready to answer, when it shall please the gownsmen to interrogate him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
9  The king looked at the cardinal as if to interrogate him; but he had not time to address any question to him--a cry of admiration burst from every mouth.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
10  He consequently kept it as a piece of evidence, and being in safety behind the angle of the trench, he began to interrogate the wounded man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
11  Antonia was frightened, and was going home to stay for a while, she told Mrs. Cutter; it would be useless to interrogate the girl, for she knew nothing of what had happened.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
12  Some of their old men consulted together in private, and then, as it would seem, they determined to interrogate their visitor on the subject.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
13  When I reached Coombe Tracey I told Perkins to put up the horses, and I made inquiries for the lady whom I had come to interrogate.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
14  This other Musketeer formed a perfect contrast to his interrogator, who had just designated him by the name of Aramis.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
15  A black stranger in Baker County, Georgia, for instance, is liable to be stopped anywhere on the public highway and made to state his business to the satisfaction of any white interrogator.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  If you catch a guy possibly responsible for the case, I have a feeling that more than one FBI agent would interrogate you.
2  I interrogated everyone even slightly involved.
3  Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or imprisoned in recent weeks.
4  The interrogation was conducted by senior police officers.