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Example sentences for "questioned"

Lexicographically close words:
questi; questing; question; questionable; questionably; questioner; questioners; questiones; questioning; questioningly
  1. It may be seriously questioned by the reader how much of painting talent we really lose on our present system,[17] and how much we should gain by the proposed trial schools.

  2. On that day men shall arise from the tombs and shall be questioned concerning their riches.

  3. When this news reached the Mu’tamíd he sought an interview with Him and questioned Him concerning the “Special Mission.

  4. As they went along, the man questioned the youth and assisted him with the replies like one manipulating the mind of a child.

  5. But no one questioned his right to deal in such words, and presently he recovered his air of courage.

  6. When she looked up again he trembled, for he felt a breath pass by; he thought she was on the point of saying that she had questioned herself, and that she refused this marriage.

  7. Rougon, firmly resolved to take the train again in the evening, after having questioned her and seen the boy.

  8. She questioned herself, and she found that she did not experience that anguish which had filled her formerly at the thought of what was to follow death.

  9. She questioned the servant, pressing her for particulars.

  10. A feeling of disquietude had given a sallow look to Maxime's worn face; and during the short drive he questioned Pascal concerning Charles with an air of paternal interest, which concealed a growing anxiety.

  11. Then again they asked me if I was willing to satisfy them on the points on which they had questioned me.

  12. So the Queen's Attorney General questioned me on all points, and wrote everything down in that order which he meant to observe in prosecuting me at the assizes, as he told me.

  13. My interest in the study of religion assorted ill with this: when I questioned on my subject, he replied on his.

  14. Respectability may be chosen as the word to sum them up; if I questioned its merits, he hated and damned it utterly.

  15. Lady Sarah questioned me about Jenny with polite but hostile curiosity.

  16. Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.

  17. And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this?

  18. Ann questioned Fledra with a look; the girl made clearer her demand by adding: "Do you believe that Jesus hears you when you ask Him something you want very, very bad?

  19. Floyd's eyes questioned her as she passed him.

  20. Then she rushed to the kitchen and questioned the servants.

  21. The flower, with a little sob, opened to him, and questioned him of life, of art, of immortality.

  22. On the priest's return, Ando questioned him eagerly.

  23. I questioned the servant, and found the Baron had given him a list of the places where he had been, and that he had asked at several already.

  24. He questioned me pretty closely as to my real opinion of the girl, stating that he was philanthropically disposed, and would give her a chance for reform, if there was any likelihood of her availing herself of it.

  25. When questioned about the baby she was carrying, her answer was that she took him with her, and he just sits on a chair until she has done.

  26. When he saw me and questioned me, he sent for the nurse.

  27. We questioned among ourselves whether he made ready to subdue, for his God the Land of Promise only, or at the same time to take the whole world for himself.

  28. Patricia's eyes had flashed when questioned about her parcel, but once inside the hall, her anger increased, and she mounted the stairs, tramping along the upper hall so noisily that several pupils looked out to learn who had arrived.

  29. Patricia, when at recess Dorothy questioned her.

  30. Questioned as to where she obtained the cat she said that a boy gave it to her, that she didn't know his name, or where he lived.

  31. When Mrs. Marvin questioned Patricia, she said that Arabella had a headache, and that she had said that she was not hungry.

  32. The authority of the assembly in its exposition of the law was never questioned by the people.

  33. Caesar questioned the messenger, but he only replied that he could tell him nothing, that he would learn all he cared to know from his mother's own lips.

  34. Lorenzo sat up on his bed, shaken by a convulsive movement, and questioned with his eyes the eyes of the Dominican, as though he would find out if he had deceived himself and not heard aright.

  35. Lowndes was daily questioned about the author, but was himself as much in the dark as any of the questioners.

  36. Those who had formerly attacked her had questioned only a part of her doctrines.

  37. Pleased as Mr. Browning was to have Rosamond with him again, he did not quite like her reasons for coming back, and he questioned her closely as to the cause of her sudden return.

  38. Very composedly she questioned me of what I had done during her absence, telling me, too, of her travels, of the people she had seen and the places she had visited, but never a word said she of him she called her husband.

  39. It may be questioned whether the strong effect of red is called out by the direct impression of the color, or by certain associations.

  40. He questioned me graciously, but I was as one seized with blindness, my spirit fainted, my limbs failed, my heart was no longer in my bosom, and I knew the difference between life and death.

  41. At last translations of certain inscriptions were offered by these men, but critics looked at the apparently meaningless signs and questioned the versions rendered.

  42. I sent James for them, and have kept them to be questioned by you.

  43. Again her eyes questioned more insistently than her lips.

  44. Colonel Bingham had of late questioned the wisdom of continuing to live with his daughters in his beautiful, isolated house.

  45. After the Czar had left, Golitzine had questioned the Italian closely as to certain items of the information which he had gathered at the villa the night before.

  46. The Princess questioned her a little more closely.

  47. The Count received him with more than ordinary graciousness, and questioned him kindly about his London experiences.

  48. We do not think about that," was the invariable answer, when any one was questioned about a future state.

  49. I questioned a man, who had thus been afflicted, as to the manner of his being seized, and he told me he only felt a giddiness without any pain, and that afterwards he did not know what happened to him.

  50. Will those who object to his being questioned in classics and mathematics, tell us what they would have him questioned in?

  51. When questioned by the House of Assembly, he adopted a reticent attitude and made equivocating statements.

  52. After a while it began to be questioned whether the verses were really written by Sir Walter.

  53. I questioned him familiarly and kindly in relation to his speculative views.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "questioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    discredited; disputed; exploded; moot; problematic; suspect