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How to use questioning in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Questioning means the action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry. Example: “Why do you have a questioning look? Are you puzzled about something?”

Examples of questioning by meaning

nounThe action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry.

  • I didn’t know much about medical supplies, so I took the list Docc handed me without much questioning.2018, Megan DeVos, Anarchy, Orion, →ISBN

nounInterrogation.

  • They were taken to Matsu for questioning.1955 December 31, “Chiang Says Time Near For Mainland Uprising”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume 48, number 31...

adjectiveCharacterized by questions, inquisitiveness, doubt, or wonder; quizzical.

  • Why do you have a questioning look? Are you puzzled about something?

adjectiveUnsure of one's sexual orientation or gender identity.

  • We entertain the boy and it becomes more evident that his dad is trans and he is questioning; my coworker keeps frowning about it.2020 February 4, “Transitioning To Some New Protocols”, in Not Always Right, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2021
  • Girls broadly fared worse than boys, and there is “ongoing and extreme distress” among teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning (LGBQ+).2023 February 13, Deidre McPhillips, “Teens, especially girls, are experiencing more violence, suicidal thoughts and mental health...

More sentences with questioning

  • My friends and I saw a soldier questioning a man holding a bag with a gun in his pocket.From the entry soldier
  • Questioning the decision would definitely open a can of worms.From the entry can of worms
  • The police took him away for questioning.From the entry take away
  • After three hours of questioning, he finally opened up.From the entry open up
  • Oh, come off it with the endless questioning.From the entry come off it
  • The politician was unnerved by the journalist's quick-fire questioning.From the entry quick-fire
  • She was pulled in for questioning.From the entry pull in
  • I gave him a questioning look and he hurled a pillow at me.2014, Crystal Evans, Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket, page 116. From the entry smicker
  • What type of politics of memory is being rejected by questioning the global language of memorialistic museification?2012, Susana Draper, Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America, University of Pittsburgh Press…. From the entry museification
  • The distinction between constatives and performatives is one of the distinctions that he starts questioning.2011, Phyllis Kaburise, Speech Act Theory and Communication: A Univen Study, page 77. From the entry constative
  • The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual)."2009 June 22, Anneli Rufus, “Asexuals at the Pride Parade”, in Psychology Today. From the entry ace
  • Giving the lie became the fundamental way of questioning a man’s status as a gentleman.2009, Jerome Neu, Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults. From the entry give the lie
  • Deacon's article is only the latest round of research questioning the drugs.2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 146. From the entry decadelong
  • Police said the incident was a case of "homeless dumping" and were questioning officials from the hospital.2007. Police probe alleged L.A. homeless dumping. MSNBC via Associated Press, February 9, 2007, Los Angeles…. From the entry homeless dumping
  • Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business.2004 July 12, “Yukos Offers $8 Billion To Cover Its Tax Bill”, in New York Times. From the entry Napster
  • But once again both sides spent as much time bullyragging one another as they did questioning witnesses.1996 July 22, Tim Weiner, “Warnings of a Disaster in Waco Were Ignored, Witness Testifies”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Aug 2014. From the entry bullyrag
  • But by questioning the nature of primary time, unsuspected aspects of temporality come to the fore.1990, Edith Wyschogrod, Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy, page 94. From the entry primary time
  • Mr Hillier took down his Who’s Who to enlighten the questioning Mrs Mead. ‘Well, yes.1990, Stanley Middleton, chapter 6, in Changes and Chances, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry ailourophilia
  • It is a questioning of van Vogt's contention that the "right man" is altogether a bad phenomenon.1983, K. Gunnar Bergström, An Odyssey to Freedom: four themes in Colin Wilson's Novels, page 97. From the entry right man
  • Graduate schools teach students to use footnotes as authorities — barriers to anyone's questioning the author's conclusions.1980 February 9, Charley Shively, “Radical History: Not Radical Enough”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 12. From the entry pull rank
  • A gentleman did not like his girl-friend to have to undergo so much unpleasant questioning.1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XXXII, in Have His Carcase. From the entry girlfriend
  • He made no pretence either of innocence or of questioning the folly of his proceedings against Queensberry.1918, George Bernard Shaw, “A Letter to Frank Harris, published by him in his Life of Wilde”, in Pen Portraits and Reviews, London…. From the entry infatuate
  • My thoughts turned, inconsequently, out of their channel of bitterness, to fresh, desperate questionings.1907, William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland. From the entry inconsequently
  • In this day and age, our understanding of, well, everything is molded far more by social media than any Socratic questioning.2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club. From the entry in this day and age
  • The questioning during the two-hour argument was mostly technical, and several conservative justices did not tip their hands.2022 February 28, Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Considers Limiting E.P.A.’s Ability to Address Climate Change”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry tip one's hand
  • Under sharp questioning from Judge Paul S.2020 November 11, “Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims”, in The Washington Post, archived from…. From the entry nonzero
  • Shouldn't you be questioning me and not the detective?2018, Marquita Valentine, Catching Her Heart. From the entry bromancey
  • Patch.” He was generally much better at questioning people, at reading what would upset them or make them reveal their secrets.2015, Sabrina Jeffries, If the Viscount Falls, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry off-kilter
  • They represent the “Q,” questioning, part of the LGBTQ acronym.2014, David E. Newton, LGBT Youth Issues Today: A Reference Handbook, page 66. From the entry LGBTQ
  • So, why I started with my incessive nervous immediate questioning of, “Oh my God, did you lose your job?2013, Debra J. Blood, My Husband Has Died, But That’s Not The Funny Part, →ISBN. From the entry incessive
  • "There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism."2012 February 17, Fiachra Gibbons, quoting Bruce Springsteen, “Bruce Springsteen: ‘What was done to my country was un-American’”, in The…. From the entry un-American
  • All of which has left investors questioning whether Mr.2008 May 11, Geraldine Fabrikant, “Humbler, After a Streak of Magic”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperconfident
  • Failure to 'Mirandise' an arrested person renders inadmissible in evidence any statement or confession made during police questioning.1996, Raymond Byrne, J. Paul McCutcheon, The Irish legal system, page 291. From the entry Mirandise
  • But, schoolpersons everywhere are learning this story, and questioning it.1978, Dick Amann, Dick Smith, Forgotten Women of Computer History. From the entry schoolperson
  • In other cases, masked agents are running checkpoints in the middle of Washington, D.C., and in L.A., and questioning people in their cars.2025 September 5, Jaclyn Diaz, “What ICE agents can and cannot legally do during arrests”, in NPR. From the entry D.C.

Meaning of questioning

  1. noun The action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry.
  2. noun The act of challenging, wondering, and doubting.
  3. noun Interrogation.

Full definition of questioning

Questions about questioning in a sentence

How do you use questioning in a sentence?
Questioning is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Why do you have a questioning look? Are you puzzled about something?”
What is a short sentence with questioning?
“She was pulled in for questioning.”
What does questioning mean?
Questioning means the action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry.

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