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Example sentences for "questioning"

Lexicographically close words:
questionably; questioned; questioner; questioners; questiones; questioningly; questionings; questionless; questionnaire; questionnaires
  1. I was questioning him when the doctor arrived, and after he was gone I could get nothing more out of him.

  2. The other loan does not come due for more than two weeks, but the time was so near that I did not think of Josiah questioning it.

  3. The Emir nodded, and went straight to the Hakim, pointing down at the patient, questioning him with his eyes.

  4. Frank, as his friends turned questioning eyes towards him.

  5. He felt that his liberty came first and that the time for questioning Hank would come later.

  6. But the boy had no time to devote to speculation or questioning right then.

  7. But such verification instruments are of no use in questioning me.

  8. Meanwhile, we'll put the Ermetyne through a routine questioning ourselves when she gets over being groggy.

  9. I cried, while Phil threw a wild, questioning look at the shirts, and dropped the blue silk jacket.

  10. The boys gathered closely around Clay, standing under the brilliant prow light, and examined the paper, passing it from one to another with questioning glances.

  11. There were birds in the air, and here and there timid creatures of the jungle came out to the stream to drink and peer with questioning eyes at the stranger who had invaded their leafy retreat.

  12. I am surprised at any body's ever questioning the real madness of Hamlet: I know but one passage in the play which tells against it, and there are a thousand that go to prove it.

  13. Helen's eyes opened to their utmost power of distension, at the idea of anybody's questioning that Lady Davenant knew what she was about.

  14. On inquiry I learned that he was receiving only that provided by the station, and on questioning him further he said that probably the sum promised by the church was being kept as his monthly contribution to the expenses of the church!

  15. On the morning following that first awful night, he had suddenly confronted them with the box of powders crushed in his hand, and in his eyes a tragic, questioning look which spoke, while he stood sternly silent.

  16. By dint of careful questioning I tried to obtain from her some facts concerning her escape from the convent, but she would tell me nothing regarding it.

  17. The police were ferreting about the hotel, questioning everybody.

  18. It would be no use questioning them for they would not know either.

  19. I'll hold out against questioning a short time.

  20. Say you're hypnoed to hold out against questioning five days at the most, two hours more likely.

  21. A strange fascination held her; and now, as he came up, she had no thought of questioning him, no desire.

  22. You have known that I have a secret for nearly two months, and still you refrain from questioning me.

  23. Preciosa paused in her heavenward ascent, and seemed to be wondering with a questioning little glance just how far along, after all, she had got.

  24. But who art thou, that into our conditions Questioning goest, and hast thine eyes unbound As I believe, and breathing dost discourse?

  25. Verily, in so deep a questioning Do not decide, unless she tell it thee, Who light 'twixt truth and intellect shall be.

  26. I held my peace; but my desire was painted Upon my face, and questioning with that More fervent far than by articulate speech.

  27. Indeed, I would not wait thy questioning If I in thee were as thou art in me.

  28. Again he paused and cast a questioning glance at his host as though in deference to the hospitality of the roof, and the tall mountaineer, standing beside the post of his porch, nodded assent with equal gravity.

  29. His eyes followed Mercy with a vacant, questioning look.

  30. Mercy had risen while he had been questioning the servant.

  31. He was questioning his own heart, on the subject of Mercy, sternly and unreservedly as it was his habit to do.

  32. Not by the usual road, since that meant delay and Dan's questioning eyes at Rajpore, but by a side route, branching from the railway, farther to the south.

  33. And then questioning Timothy further he learned that Captain Middleton had been one of the Earl of Cumberland's fleet, that he had had a race with the galleons and had outstripped them by only a few hours' sail.

  34. He hath been questioning everyone, but none can tell him.

  35. Jasper glanced in quick apprehension at his nephew, as if questioning whether the lad spoke from knowledge or only at random.

  36. The lads were questioning what manner of ship she might be and whence she had come.

  37. Then he will accept whatever situation he finds, and never think of questioning it.

  38. Ellen smiled down into the questioning little face, its dark eyes looking seriously up into hers through long and curly lashes.

  39. He went down on one knee beside the chair, a procedure which brought his smiling face beside the old lady's questioning one.

  40. I'm through questioning Miss Austin--I shouldn't have let her go otherwise.

  41. I be excused from this questioning until I can get counsel?

  42. Eva was sitting on the windward side of the vessel, looking west, and her eyes were filled with a still, questioning wonder.

  43. She looked at him steadily, as if questioning him--and the long perspective of level days had passed from her life for ever.

  44. She found the invalid asleep, and quietly took a seat beside her without questioning the exactness of the message she had just received.

  45. We have looked in vain in the columns of the Tablet for a denunciation of this pious fraud, and our diligent questioning has failed to elicit from that usually fair journal any reply.

  46. Clara and Julian gazed at her with a kind of anxious admiration, but forbore questioning her.

  47. She remained awhile, and learned by questioning him all that has just been related, not omitting the kind clerk’s offer to become his host as well as his colleague.

  48. The two girls looked at each other--Rose with a certain wary alarm and questioning in her eyes, Charlotte with a dignified confidence of misery.

  49. Barney sat with staring eyes full of miserable questioning upon the road.

  50. Sylvia's straining, questioning eyes did not leave his face.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "questioning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.