PROBE in a Sentence

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For PROBE, below is one of 37 sentences:
Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROBE
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probe
 v.  explore with tools; investigate; search
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Mrs. Fisher continued to probe her embarrassment with an unflinching eye.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
2  Then, gradually, his troubled vision cleared, old hints and rumours came back to him, and out of the very insinuations he had feared to probe, he constructed an explanation of the mystery.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
3  He had time in which to wonder about himself and to attempt to probe his sensations.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  However, after a while I came away; my friend is just a little too sane at present to make it safe to probe him too deep with questions.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Lord Godalming smiled, and the man lifted a good-sized bunch of keys; selecting one of them, he began to probe the lock, as if feeling his way with it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
7  It is hard in you to probe me with that remark.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
8  Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9  The evil of our crime is not for the human mind to probe.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
10  He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
11  The reddleman and the two others then entered the water together from below as before, and with their united force probed the pool forwards to where it sloped down to its central depth.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
12  I have no doubt, indeed, that she probed the Doctor's wound without knowing it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
13  The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  In short, one needs, before doing this, to carry out a prolonged probing with the aid of an insight sharpened in the acute school of research.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
15  However, instead of probing deeper into the subject of Chichikov's ailments, Murazov turned to Khlobuev.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  I wanted the chance to compare notes and probe and ask questions, and with this approach I could.
2  The police probe into organized crime led to several arrests.
3  I don't want to probe too deeply into your personal affairs.
4  A doctor used a probe to remove metal fragments from a wound.
5  The surgeon tried to probe the wound for foreign matter before suturing it.
6  Jason, as his father's protege, is destined to probe the mysteries of the hometown church.
7  The government probe began after Christ told Go Public the fast food outlet is bringing in Filipino workers while cutting local staffers' hours and turning away dozens of seemingly qualified Canadians seeking jobs.
8  The interviewer probed deep into her private life.
9  He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger.
10  When the development bubble burst, federal regulators started probing the balance sheets of the biggest banks.
11  The journalist was probing into several financial scandals.
12  He didn't like the media probing into his past.
13  The police were probing into her personal life.
14  There's something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it.
15  Finding an effective drug could take up to ten years, but the technology could prove useful in probing other drug resistant diseases such as HIV.