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Example sentences for "probe"

Lexicographically close words:
probationer; probationers; probative; probatum; probatur; probed; proben; probes; probi; probing
  1. A probe in a fresh direction might reach a more vulnerable spot.

  2. Both fairly intelligent and intellectual, both prone to probe under the surface of things.

  3. Grant, thought to probe a little by asking if she had ever loved any one before himself?

  4. My curiosity being aroused, I resolve to probe TunicĂș on the subject of his affaire de coeur, at our next meeting.

  5. The drivers probe them with long iron-tipped lances, and further goad them by shouting their names and adjective titles.

  6. Surely there was some brain clever enough to probe the mystery of them.

  7. He spent many long evenings with Doctor Bartholomew talking the thing over, trying to reconstruct it, probe into it, hunt for new clues, new anything which might lead to a solution.

  8. Can any thing be more rational than to probe to the core these astounding theories?

  9. The story itself was all so tremendous, so far removed from the work that pre-occupied him that he had little desire to probe deeper into it.

  10. But no opening had been given him, and he feared to probe the wound that had been inflicted.

  11. Then followed such a fumbling and a "dear me-ing" until the worthless nephew was perforce called to the rescue, to fish and probe with a paper-knife till the lost treasure was recovered.

  12. While he was selecting a probe from his case of instruments the Vicomte d'Audierne opened his eyes.

  13. I had expected him to be eager to further probe the mystery, and try and elucidate the manner in which Dudley had manufactured the dummy and exchanged it for the secret convention.

  14. The more deeply I attempt to probe this mystery, the more sorrow I heap upon myself.

  15. He laughed the merry laugh of a man who wishes to probe the open wound of disagreement between two close friends.

  16. It almost seemed as though she were striving to probe beneath that cold mask to the thoughts and emotions which she felt must lie behind it.

  17. I am going to probe this matter to the bottom.

  18. Neither could probe the future under this new aspect.

  19. And when we come to probe this problem of the spread of Supersition in America, this amazing renascence of Romanism in a democracy, we find precisely the same phenomenon.

  20. Whare the muskeeter goes to in the winter iz a standing konumdrum, which all the naturalists hav giv up, but we kno he dont go far, for he iz on hand early each year with hiz probe fresh ground, and polished.

  21. Well, Mr. Pickwick, sir, I wouldn't probe your feelings for the world.

  22. Wot we rekvire, sir, is a probe o' this here.

  23. Animals to be treated are confined in a chute, and the mixture is injected into the ears with a syringe, after the wax and other débris in the ears have been cleaned out with a wire probe that has an eyelet at one end.

  24. While a probe can ascertain the depth, it throws but little light on the extent or exact nature of the internal injury.

  25. When the probe touches necrosed cartilage it will feel like a piece of dry leather or partially softened wood.

  26. Complicated cases are common, and in all alike the umbilical veins usually remain open and can be explored by a probe passed at first upward and then forward toward the liver.

  27. The interior of the vein should be swabbed out with a probe wrapped around with cotton wool and dipped in boracic salicylic acid.

  28. The eyeball may be torn out of its socket by the horns of another animal, or it may be crowded out with the blunt end of a club, cane, or probe in the hands of a brutal attendant.

  29. The discovery of this disease will at first resemble abscess, but on making an examination with a probe after the abscess is open we find the bone rough and brittle at the point of disease.

  30. His deeply subtle mind prompted him to probe the matter to its depths, and at the same time to convey no suspicion of his anxiety to John.

  31. I implore you, doctor, to probe this matter.

  32. He looked from one to the other of us, and if he could not probe the situation it was perhaps no wonder.

  33. No more than it would, that because the lancet and the probe are useful in a state of disease, they should be continued in a state of health.

  34. With that recollection before me, I could not allow myself to probe his frailties too severely, had it even been certainly safe to do so.

  35. Be that as it may, His Grace had no wish to probe the matter further; with a shrug of the shoulders he dismissed it from his thoughts, whilst registering a vow to chastise the young blackguard if his impertinence showed signs of recurrence.

  36. With his intimate knowledge of the foibles of mankind, he found it an easy task enough to probe the inner thoughts of the transparent soul before him.

  37. They were going to be the best of pals - why not - and why seek to probe any further?

  38. She had no time to probe further, as the brougham stopped at her door.

  39. Close and tender as were the ties linking the two, Eliza dared not probe the wound, and when Eglah closed the door of her own room, the loving little mother would have broken into a sealed tomb as soon as violate her solitude.

  40. Professor Cleveden adjusted his eye-glasses and moved his chair so as to look straight at Miss Manning, who at once put up her lorgnette to probe his gold spectacles.

  41. As he opened it, a flood of light streamed over her cold, proud face, and his keen gaze seemed to probe her soul.

  42. I had an idle fancy that it would be good on this Christmas night to bare the secrets hidden in here to you,--to suffer your pure eyes to probe the sorest depths: I thought perhaps they would have a blessing power.

  43. Each probe will have gravity instrumentation.

  44. Hoshino's design propels each probe at about one-twentieth the speed of light.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "probe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appraise; appreciate; assay; assess; audit; barometer; calculate; calibrate; check; comb; compute; detection; dial; dig; dissect; divide; dragnet; enter; estimate; evaluate; examination; examine; experiment; exploration; explore; fathom; feeler; forage; frisk; gauge; graduate; grope; hearing; hunt; hunting; indicator; inquest; inquire; inquiry; inspection; instrument; investigate; investigation; look; measure; mete; meter; mine; nurse; pace; peer; penetrate; perforate; plumb; poke; posse; prize; probationer; probe; probing; pump; quest; rake; rate; read; reconnoiter; report; research; rummage; sample; satellite; saturate; scout; scrupulous; scrutinize; scrutiny; search; searching; see; sift; sifting; sister; size; sound; sounder; span; stalk; stalking; step; survey; syringe; test; touch; treat; trespass; value; weathercock; weigh