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How to use interrogation in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun

Interrogation means the act of interrogating or questioning; an examination by questions; an inquiry. Example: “We do not discuss specific interrogation techniques because they are classified information.”

Examples of interrogation by meaning

nounThe act of interrogating or questioning; an examination by questions; an inquiry.

  • Particles are used to indicate both negation and interrogation: na is the negative particle and it is placed before the verb2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog

More sentences with interrogation

  • We do not discuss specific interrogation techniques because they are classified information.From the entry classified
  • Military prosecutors said al-Kahtani would be unprosecutable because of what was done to him during interrogation.From the entry unprosecutable
  • Court ruled that physical evidence that was the fruit of an unmirandized interrogation need not be suppressed.From the entry unmirandized
  • The suspects' hostile interrogation amounted to a public crucifixion.From the entry crucifixion
  • I preserved a composed manner throughout the interrogation.From the entry preserve
  • Criminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold.From the entry cold
  • He had been sure that his night with Fass had been the opening round of interrogation.2014, Don Pendleton, Blood Tide, Harlequin, →ISBN. From the entry good cop-bad cop
  • In the front room, full of stale cigar-smoke, the Germans began their interrogation.2013, Airey Neave, Little Cyclone: The Girl who Started the Comet Line. From the entry cigar-smoke
  • Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death.1985, Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary, page 420. From the entry whydunit
  • The ineffable self-satisfaction displayed by the young Turkish papicide during his interrogation and trial was not unreasonable.1982, Polish Perspectives, volume XXV, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Wspólczesne RSW Prasa-Książka-Ruch, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40. From the entry papicide
  • During interrogation he committed suicide by swallowing a coat-button of compressed potassium cyanide.1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 22. From the entry potassium cyanide
  • A little later the interrogation point (;) appears, though not very frequently.1930, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopaedia, volume 19, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 374. From the entry middle dot
  • Fixed a softlock where Concentration in the interrogation room wouldn’t turn off and wouldn’t let you start the interrogation.2026 January 23, “Update #2”, in Pathologic 3 Events, Ice-Pick Lodge, via Steam Community. From the entry softlock
  • Choppered them off to some interrogation centre outside Belfast.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 288. From the entry chopper
  • It is the rules that force them to play good cop, bad cop to get a confession (see also interrogation).2018, David Correia, Tyler Wall, Police: A Field Guide, Verso, published 2022, →ISBN. From the entry good cop, bad cop
  • Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works.2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry doesn't
  • “I’m instructing you and my client to avoid all interrogation.2012, daniel storm, chapter 14, in Not Afraid to Kill-Not Afraid to Die, Elm Grove, Wis.: William J. Pulkinen & Associates, →ISBN. From the entry irrationally
  • Shahzad was not Mirandised until after the initial interrogation dispelled concerns that there might be accomplices planning further car bombing attacks.2012, Peter Robson, Jessica Silbey, Law and Justice on the Small Screen, →ISBN. From the entry Mirandise
  • Interrogations would last four or five hours a day, and sometimes two Vietnamese would play good cop–bad cop.2005, James S. Hirsch, Two Souls Indivisible, HMH, →ISBN. From the entry good cop–bad cop
  • The boy seemed streetwise yet clearly unaware that this was an officer whose slam-bang interrogation methods were a legend.2004, Lindsey Davis, Scandal Takes a Holiday, Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry slam-bang
  • The Soviet Union did not use such devices for interrogation.1978, Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, page 38. From the entry flutter
  • Only one employee testified as to the interrogation.1968, “H. P. Wasson and Company”, in Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, volume 170, page 298. From the entry ire
  • With an interrogation point, for the reply was percontative.1960, Raymond Queneau [aut.] (+ unknown tr.), Zazie, page 128. From the entry percontative
  • He was conscious that Flamel was looking at him with the smile that was like an interrogation point.1900, Edith Wharton, chapter 4, in The Touchstone. From the entry interrogation point
  • Beneath the indolent sprawl of the Imperial Palace lay the holding cells, the interrogation rooms, the laboratoriums, all the varied instruments essential to the Empire.2012, JY Yang, “Captain Bells and the Sovereign State of Discordia”, in Ann VanderMeer, editor, Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, San…. From the entry laboratorium
  • The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 700. From the entry provincial
  • To presume the benefit of the doubt with the CIA after countless destroyed interrogation tapes doesn't even pass the straight face test.2009 June 26, John Wellington Ennis, “Picking on Pelosi”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023. From the entry straight-face test
  • Once behind it, they faced a very nonnondescript piece of plate glass that gave them a fairly full view of interrogation room.2000, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Kiwi Con: A Midnight Louie Mystery, New York: FORGE, page 392. From the entry nonnondescript
  • I am talking about a way of regarding our world as amenable to investigation and interrogation without magic keys, special jargons and instruments, curtained-off practices.1993, Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage, published 1994, Chapter Four, Section II, p. 312. From the entry curtain off
  • Could the role of makar, which at the least involves a creative interrogation of national identity, be filled by a poet who wasn’t a supporter of independence?2021 August 23, Libby Brooks, “Scotland’s new makar Kathleen Jamie: ‘Poetry is at the heart of our culture’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry makar
  • Friends under interrogation insist that ‘Have You Eaten?’ is very much alive, but when asked to recall their last encounter, answers invariably skew towards inter-generational anecdotes.2018 September 17, Pan Jie, “Why Do We Greet Each Other By Asking, ‘Have You Eaten?’”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 02…. From the entry lor
  • If Cheney calls it enhanced interrogation, he argues, this still doesn’t change the meaning of the word torture, which Cheney and the public know perfectly well.2014 January, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 35. From the entry torture
  • Perhaps because aca-fen often teach in fields based on the interrogation of media cultures, their status as fans has not, moreover, led to their pedigree as academics being questioned.2013, Mark Duffett, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 268. From the entry aca-fan
  • A routine border-check in upstate New York had turned into a back-room interrogation, and I was worried, because the three friends I was traveling with didn’t respond to authority well.2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry peacock
  • The film sparked controversy among feminists who largely objected to the (allegedly surreptitious) filming of a pantieless Stone as she crosses and uncrosses her legs during a police interrogation scene.2002, Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, Contemporary North American film directors: a Wallflower critical guide. From the entry pantieless

Meaning of interrogation

  1. noun The act of interrogating or questioning; an examination by questions; an inquiry.
  2. noun A question put; an inquiry.
  3. noun A question mark.

Full definition of interrogation

Questions about interrogation in a sentence

How do you use interrogation in a sentence?
Interrogation is used as a noun. For example: “We do not discuss specific interrogation techniques because they are classified information.”
What is a short sentence with interrogation?
“I preserved a composed manner throughout the interrogation.”
What does interrogation mean?
Interrogation means the act of interrogating or questioning; an examination by questions; an inquiry.

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