INTERROGATION in a Sentence

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If you catch a guy possibly responsible for the case, I have a feeling that more than one FBI agent would interrogate you.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERROGATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
interrogation
 n.  a process of asking someone questions for a long time to get information
 n.  formal systematic questioning
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  All social problems erect their interrogation point around this chopping-knife.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent between an exclamation and an interrogation point.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
3  All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
4  All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
5  Good or evil stands behind this severe interrogation point.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
6  To a look of interrogation which they made, Milady replied by a sign that it was he.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 40 A TERRIBLE VISION
7  Several times Lord de Winter, Porthos, or Aramis tried to talk with the man in the red cloak; but to every interrogation which they put to him he bowed, without response.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
8  She had no immediate intention of repeating to Lily what she had heard, or even of trying to ascertain its truth by means of discreet interrogation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
9  Lily stood speechless under the shock of the interrogation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
10  He hesitated a single instant, and bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he continued, in a manner that was divided between interrogation and assertion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  Whenever this unknown individual encountered one of the numberless sentinels who crossed his path, his answer was prompt, and, as it appeared, satisfactory; for he was uniformly allowed to proceed without further interrogation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
12  There was a kind of solemnity in this interrogation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59. The Will.
13  And, to give more weight to his protestation, Caderousse advanced another step towards the abbe, who remained motionless in his place, as calm as ever, and pursuing his interrogation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
14  So saying, he took from Gurth's breast the large leathern pouch, in which the purse given him by Rebecca was enclosed, as well as the rest of the zecchins, and then continued his interrogation.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  He tried to keep up his tone of cold interrogation, but his voice when he spoke was humble and indifferent.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  The interrogation was conducted by senior police officers.
2  If you catch a guy possibly responsible for the case, I have a feeling that more than one FBI agent would interrogate you.
3  I interrogated everyone even slightly involved.
4  Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or imprisoned in recent weeks.