How to Use interrogate in a Sentence

interrogate

verb
  • The Last Wish world premiere as a bonus), and has to interrogate all four guys from the losing team.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Big interrogates Kenny Boy, who decides to take the fall for the entire escapade as a way to protect the kids.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • A lot of them had to do with interrogating her thought patterns and emotions.
    Lydia Wang, Women's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a scene in Torn where Max interrogates his mom about falling in love with Anker so soon after Alex died.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The judge requested that Rivera’s home be searched and that he be interrogated.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Agents handcuffed and interrogated the man, then put him in the room's shower.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Some detectives say it’s a tool to help build a case or prepare to interrogate a suspect.
    Sophia Kovatch, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Carla Hurley of his plans to break into the Pelosi home and interrogate the former House speaker.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Who's Coming to Dinner, which continued to interrogate themes of race and class.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Those rebels are there, too, hoping to kill Cassian before the Empire can interrogate him.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The second is a shaking of the mind — a kind of dancing that can interrogate and heal generational trauma.
    Juan De Dios Sánchez Jurado, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
  • There was a lot more to Richard to not only excavate, but also interrogate.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • He was interrogated for hours without a lawyer or a parent present.
    Joe Heim, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • Some of the suspects were shown being interrogated beside a road.
    Reuters, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Jimenez was then interrogated by police for more than five hours.
    Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Father and son were then interrogated by police, and detectives were able to get a warrant signed by a judge, Moscoso said.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • When interrogated, Baskin confirmed what was seen in the footage and said that the third suspect is the one who set the container on fire, according to a police report.
    The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • This was yet another delay after a months-long battle in courts to stall and avoid the AG’s office efforts to interrogate them.
    Marta Dhanis, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The kids had laughingly interrogated him about this outing, but now were watching him from the kitchen window.
    Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • DePape had hoped to hold her hostage, interrogate her and break her kneecaps, authorities said.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • In the next, a teenage girl (Sarvin Zabetian) is interrogated by her school principal, who believes the girl was seen riding to school on a motorbike with a boy.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 June 2023
  • As a film, Barbie succeeds not by shedding the influence of its mega-brand but by interrogating it.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 July 2023
  • That day, Lush called Flakko on the live show and interrogated him about his background before adding on an alleged former classmate who called out Flakko.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
  • Beyond disruption to shipping routes, Europe will need to interrogate the resilience of the source of its chip supply.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The interrogating microwave is adjusted to resonate with the atoms.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • To interrogate who has and who has not been in these decision-making processes.
    Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Senior leaders need to be trained in that language and given the tools to interrogate their internal policies and practices.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • For the first time in 50 years, Certain was about to step inside the notorious compound where he’d been held, interrogated and beaten.
    Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • What better way to earn the trust of another person than to interrogate their most key human elements.
    John Pham, oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • These plug-ins can look up information on the web, draw diagrams, manage travel plans, interrogate Wikipedia, and more.
    WIRED, 24 Sep. 2023

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