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Example sentences for "quiz"

Lexicographically close words:
quivering; quiveringly; quivers; quivi; quixotic; quizzed; quizzical; quizzically; quizzing; quo
  1. Our mock Indians had noticed him, and not knowing who he was, expressed a determination "to quiz that deaf old devil," after supper.

  2. Meanwhile, I have another important matter that I want to quiz you on.

  3. But the following is the best: it is good advice to a young man, very well expressed under the circumstances: Get nymph; quiz sad brow; fix luck.

  4. Not that he is very respectful in his manner of proceeding: the following dry quiz on his opponent's logic must have been very cutting, being true.

  5. I resolved to quiz him WELL, now and hereafter.

  6. In fact, I want to try a mild and not offensive quiz on all 'sensational' reporting.

  7. I wish I had Bright's speech in time for a quiz this month.

  8. My poor wife laughed at your quiz at my bit of tenderness.

  9. The truth is that he could not help being at times semi-impertinent to young ladies; but then he had delicacy of breeding enough to know when he was so; he did not quiz them in mere boorish stupidity.

  10. She, on the other hand, was a little too much afraid of him to quiz in return; she could not treat this mature and seemingly worldly-wise man with the playful impertinence which sometimes marked her manner towards Colburne.

  11. Did you write the lively quiz on Peter Bell?

  12. Except in a few great towns, the quiz vehicles remind us of those caricatures at which one laughed so heartily in Paris in 1814; and in Madrid, even down to Ferdinand VII.

  13. Standing the quiz of the Togati Visible propensities of your predecessor.

  14. She got him into a chair by her at length, where he stared into his hat to avoid the bright eyes that seemed to quiz him so unmercifully.

  15. She drew herself stiffly erect, conscious through every limb of youth and strength, and filled with a multitude of vague hopes.

  16. Then Hastings had drawn Ellesborough away, and Janet, with a village mother, had rendered the last offices.

  17. Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz arrived at some houses called Quiuipay, about half a league from Cuzco, where they placed Huascar as a prisoner with a sufficient guard.

  18. Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz then sent a messenger to Atahualpa, letting him know all that had happened, and that they had made prisoners of Huascar and many others, and asking for further orders.

  19. Huanca Auqui ordered them to march against Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz while he remained at Caxamarca.

  20. He told him that Tupac Atao was taken, that Huascar was expected with a small force, and that Quiz-quiz was wanted that both might take this enemy on the flanks.

  21. What Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz did concerning Huascar and those of his side in words LXVII.

  22. But on the third day Huanca Auqui was vanquished by Quiz-quiz and Chalco Chima.

  23. These being prisoners Quiz-quiz rose and said--"Now you know of the battles you have fought with me on the road, and the trouble you have caused me.

  24. Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz then retreated to the other side of the river Cotabamba.

  25. He now gave orders to Quiz-quiz and Chalco Chima to advance in pursuit of Huanca Auqui.

  26. Those of Chalco Chima and those of Quiz-quiz fought with great ferocity, sparing none, and killing them all.

  27. This Cusi Yupanqui arrived at Cuzco, and Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz delivered the prisoners to him.

  28. Presently Quiz-quiz asked Huascar, "Who of these made you lord, there being others better and more valiant than you, who might have been chosen?

  29. When he tried to fly from those who fell upon his rear, he fell into the hands of Quiz-quiz who was waiting for him lower down.

  30. Oh la, Captain Brown, what a quiz you are.

  31. Then, ma'am, I shall do nothing but quiz you at the ball.

  32. And here have I been telling all my acquaintance that I was going to dance with the prettiest girl in the room; and when they see you standing up with somebody else, they will quiz me famously.

  33. Again Catherine excused herself; and at last he walked off to quiz his sisters by himself.

  34. I should like to pay him for the way he served us about that quiz of a doctor, hey?

  35. By-the-bye, Clary, did you ever quiz that doctor, as I desired you?

  36. How they will all quiz him when finally they tell him the truth!

  37. He was too honourable to use any forbidden means of discovering Patty's identity, and so would not ask to see any telephone records, and was quite willing to promise not to quiz a messenger boy.

  38. Television quiz programs with an aspect of having just staged a raid on Fort Knox are very much in the news these days.

  39. And here, ready to test your wits, is your quizzing quiz master, Smiling Jim Parsons.

  40. Lord Ledgerton, a smartish old fellow, with a pair of gray eyes that look through you, and a mouth that you can't guess whether he's going to eat you up or to quiz you.

  41. They used to quiz me about sleeping in "marble halls," for I lay in the bath.

  42. Certainly, if people poke themselves eternally upon a high stool behind a desk in a murky counting-house in the city, and wear such an odd quiz of a dress as you do, they must be accounted old.

  43. Jerry was behind the counter, making up a pineapple ice-cream soda for Quiz Taylor who, with two empty glasses in front of him, was impatiently waiting for the third.

  44. As if he were reading from a book buried deep in his pineapple soda, Quiz mumbled around the straws, “The steel ship Preussen was the only five-mast full-rigged ship ever built.

  45. Sandy climbed onto the stool next to the stubby Quiz and impatiently waited until Jerry was through making the soda.

  46. Leaving Quiz in charge of the drugstore’s soda fountain, they quickly hiked to the Steele home, where Sandy’s father agreed to make the call.

  47. Looking pleased with himself, Quiz happily returned his attention to the pineapple soda.

  48. Quiz looked up from his soda with a grimace.

  49. You remember what Quiz said about the sailboat working like an airplane?

  50. Still,” Quiz interrupted thoughtfully, “the principle remains the same in both.

  51. Why, they'll laugh at, and quiz us all over the town, We are all of us done so uncommonly brown!

  52. Judy brought in the materials, and Mr. Magan began to quiz her.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quiz" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ask; audition; banter; case; catechize; challenge; character; deride; dispute; duck; eccentric; enquire; enquirer; enquiry; exam; examination; examine; final; gape; gawk; hearing; honor; inquire; inquiring; interrogate; interrogation; interview; joke; lout; mock; oddity; oral; original; peer; probing; pump; query; question; questioning; quiz; rally; ridicule; scout; seek; spook; stare; taunt; test; trial; twit