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How to use query in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Query means a question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK). Example: “The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.”

Examples of query by meaning

nounA question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

  • The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
  • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.1910, Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The...

nounA question mark.

  • I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together.2006, Pip, “Re: Royal Enfield motorbike - why would anyone buy one?”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet)

nounA set of instructions passed to a database.

  • The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

verbTo ask, inquire.

  • “You must have had an active life,” queried the shopkeeper, “before you retired?”1994, Dermot Healy, “As Gaelige”, in A Goat’s Song, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, part II (The...

verbTo question or call into doubt.

  • No one queried it.1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249

verbTo pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

  • Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction.1999, Luciano Floridi, Philosophy and computing: an introduction, page 104

verbTo send a private message to (a user on IRC).

  • if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.2000, Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet)

More sentences with query

  • An expert, given a certain query, will often come up with a crisp answer: “yes” or “no”.From the entry crisp
  • That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.From the entry crunch
  • Remember to sanitize your query parameters to avoid SQL injection exploits.From the entry sanitize
  • Do not use tainted values in SQL queries.From the entry tainted
  • Who is the company's contact for sales queries?From the entry contact
  • Parameterized queries are crucial for avoiding SQL injection.From the entry parameterize
  • Nothing dismayed, I repeated my query.From the entry nothing
  • The relevance of a document to a given search query can be guessed using the TF-IDF of each word they have in common.From the entry tf-idf
  • Any query to the setter is required to be addressed as such (e.g., "Setter: Please check"); otherwise it will be treated as a query to the author.From the entry setter
  • “User agencies can no longer query or add data to the NLEAD,” the statement read.2025 February 22, Gloria Oladipo, “Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct”, in The Guardian. From the entry NLEAD
  • “The rest of the complex on the coast is for the mundanes.” “Mundanes?”, queried Peter.2023, Michael Robert von Blucher-Altona, “Landings” (chapter 17), in Forkbraid: The Price of Peace, Michael Robert von Blucher-Altona, →ISBN. From the entry mundane
  • When the tears didn't come, she flicked on the desktop terminal and loaded up the query client.2022 September 15, HarryBlank, “The Mourning After”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024. From the entry entreaty
  • These can be piped into views that users can query directly.2018 March 28, Ben Stopford, “Kafka Is Like a Database?”, in Designing Event-Driven Systems: Concepts and Patterns for Streaming Services…. From the entry databasey
  • SPARQL and Cypher queries for these glycoepitopes are provided in the S1 File .2015 December 15, “Property Graph vs RDF Triple Store: A Comparison on Glycan Substructure Search”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry glycoepitopes
  • What is the single query hated most by moms and dads?2013, Max Lucado, When Christ Comes. From the entry parentdom
  • To deal with a large number of typical queries, “chatbots” technology should be considered.2000, Handbook on Electronic Commerce, Springer, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry chatbot
  • Query whether in Conference with us prescribing & chalking the way was not a breach of priveledge.1988, Sir Thomas Aston, Judith D. Maltby, The Short Parliament (1640) diary of Sir Thomas Aston, page 75. From the entry miscollect
  • PARENTS ARE continually querying me about the suitability of current movies for their children.1962 December 27, Milton R. Bass, “The Lively Arts”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 71, number 198, Pittsfield, Mass., page 8, column 1. From the entry horrificality
  • “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry hacking
  • "Surveillance networks based on ALPR technology can track people’s movements retroactively with a simple search query," he wrote.2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News, archived from…. From the entry ALPR
  • “Recent media reports have generated a large number of queries about Presidential records and the Presidential Records Act (PRA).2023 June 9, Jamie Gangel, Zachary Cohen and Elizabeth Stuart, “National Archives refutes claims Trump had two years to go through…. From the entry PRA
  • Ask whether microaggressions merit the same response as physical assault and the Elect do not receive this as a challenging query.2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 6, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN. From the entry microaggression
  • General search engines are “one-stop shops” consumers can use to search the internet for answers to a wide range of queries.2020 October 20, US v. Google Complaint. From the entry one-stop shop
  • Some activities for MySQLers include adding extra capacity, performance tuning queries and moving traffic away from unstable regions.2018 December 30, Yury Niño, “DevOps Culture for MySQLers”, in Medium, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2023. From the entry MySQLer
  • It has a SQL interface that lets users define queries and execute them over the data held in the log.2018 March 28, Ben Stopford, “Kafka Is Like a Database?”, in Designing Event-Driven Systems: Concepts and Patterns for Streaming Services…. From the entry databasey
  • Using low scores for both R-enantiomer queries, the LBVS counter-screen ruled out exatecan acid, S-flunoxaprofen, gemfibrozil, cinalukast, fexofenadine, and tanomastat.2015 November 12, “Novel Activities of Select NSAID R-Enantiomers against Rac1 and Cdc42 GTPases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry cinalukast
  • For this reason Owen queries the statement of W.2011, Alan P.F. Sell, Convinced, Concise, and Christian, →ISBN. From the entry probabilify
  • Kindless queries cannot use filters or sort orders on properties.2010, Dan Sanderson, Programming Google App Engine, page 143. From the entry kindless
  • An actual physical piece of paper shows that you're not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet.2009, Writing Fiction For Dummies, →ISBN. From the entry shotgun
  • It supports two operations only: insertion and membership querying.2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell: Code You Can Believe In, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 581. From the entry Bloom filter
  • Still in their bonedomes, the pilots perched on top of the ladders, answering the ground crews' excited queries.2008, Jed Mercurio, Ascent, page 18. From the entry bonedome
  • Having already sensed his discomfort, I withdrew the question and aimed my queries at the more “thought-rich” ground of governance.2004, Consulting Magazine, volume 6, page 6. From the entry breakfastmate

Meaning of query

  1. noun A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
  2. noun A question mark.
  3. noun A set of instructions passed to a database.

Full definition of query

Questions about query in a sentence

How do you use query in a sentence?
Query is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.”
What is a short sentence with query?
“No one queried it.”
What does query mean?
Query means a question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: query (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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