How to Use query in a Sentence

query

1 of 2 noun

• I have a query about my order.
• The librarian responded to my query.
• And by the end of the night, the room had a new answer to Brand’s preshow queries.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• To submit a query: Send an email to [e-mail].
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Simply put, no logs of your queries are kept by the search engine.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
• But here’s the best part: Members can also pose queries via email.
  — wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• No e-book was available, and a query to the publisher went nowhere.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• The suit goes on to say that follow-up queries to Atlantic were ignored.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• This crucial query has torn the show's fandom asunder for a decade-plus.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• In my opinion, your response to your wife’s query should be – no response at all.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
• Gittleson, friendly and polite, has gotten used to such queries over the past year and a half.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Even in 2024, the Department of Data will covet your queries.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• There are a bunch of pseudo-navigational queries on the list, which at first seems a bit odd.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
• Over the next decade, authorities said, the site received queries about murder-for-hire work.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• The answer to that question has been a scientific query for hundreds of years.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
• Asked to comment on her gambit — a query inviting him to attack Porter and accuse her of hypocrisy — Schiff refused to bite.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Google handles about 90% of search-engine queries worldwide.
  — Miles Kruppa, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• Playing the first date of a three-night stand, the singer-songwriter put that query directly to the crowd and indirectly through song.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• Other pertinent queries that will be on many minds include: What is this film about?
  — Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• The spokesperson gave no further comments on other queries.
  — Weilun Soon, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
• Our answer to this query is pretty simple – to try your luck at the most popular live casino games.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Fontes' office has not responded to queries on how, if at all, his office will amend the manual in light of the court ruling.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
• The secretary-general’s spokesperson did not respond to queries about the claims of an anti-Israel bias at the U.N.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023
• Disney did not respond to queries from Variety by press time.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• Yet even that chin-stroking query can’t quite light a spark underneath this love story filtered through a lens darkly.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• Basically, instead of returning a bunch of search queries about the Chiefs game, Arc Search built me a webpage about it.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 29 Jan. 2024
• The app does a great job of auto-filling my queries and pointing me to the terms industry professionals use.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
• The series-long query took new, sudden urgency at the beginning of the final season.
  — Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz, 26 May 2023
• Ohtani’s representatives looked into the actions of the interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, in response to The Times’ queries, a source close to the matter said.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Although Ford issued a fix for the problem, the ODI in 2017 opened a recall query to address how effective the solution was.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024

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query

2 of 2 verb

• They conducted a survey in which several hundred people were queried about their dietary habits.
• In the coming years, researchers plan to query younger teens as well.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• When asked which team member should be queried, Mr. Cooper stood up and walked out of the room.
  — David Cay Johnston, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• Or queries Hugh Laurie about what should be done about Meghan Markle.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• Chopra was queried on when the first Sikh emigrated to the United States.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• For a second, Harbaugh thought about it when a reporter queried him.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2019
• When queried about it on the spot, the audience was also rather lukewarm on their thoughts on the matter.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 31 Dec. 2023
• When queried about her age, one defendant took the Fifth Amendment.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Colbert queried Jada, 52, while searching for the proper term to call Will.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• Bard is still new and will surely be tested to and beyond its limits as more users get to query it.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2023
• When a chip is queried by the reader, the first thing that is provided is the chip’s serial number.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2019
• Now that Trump is 15 months into his first term, all of the candidates the Statesman queried are singing his praises.
  — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 24 Apr. 2018
• The actor would query the dialogue or ask questions about the intent.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Among the 20 or so people queried, none had heard about the chants, and only some were aware of the skirmish between Trump and the four female members of Congress.
  — Toluse Olorunnipa, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
• Those events formed the backdrop to the fight over the new rules for querying the surveillance repository.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2019
• Kaplan queried, as the photo also featured Trump's first wife, Ivana Trump.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
• Applications can query the orientation of the two screens and the position of the hinge.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
• So query whether the state is really gonna let this continue for any period of time.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• When a friend queried about his injury, Mr. Shubert pointed to the large bandage on his neck, then lifted his curls to show where the bullet struck him.
  — Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 20 May 2018
• Legere keeps the pace rapid and the tone solicitous, doling out cash rewards (peeled off a stash of rolled-up $20 bills) for those brave enough to query him.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2018
• Three academics who have written about Paine, queried by The Chronicle, did not recall the quote offhand.
  — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Disney guests will often stop him in the parks and ask for selfies, or query him about park design decisions.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The state’s disease reporting system lacks a way to query the data for such insights.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2020
• But at the end of the day, that has the been the focus of of concern, which is the ability to query a database originally set up for other purposes.
  — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2023
• Instead, when users query Siri for a definition, the service looks for it in the Oxford Dictionary.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2018
• Even with the constraints of Zoom participants, the speaker can query the audience.
  — Merrie Spaeth, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• He was queried about his screenwriting habits, about writing a film in French, about the role luck has played in his career, and about penning roles for men versus women.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Though the mayor’s office declined to talk about the reports filed, other city departments were more forthcoming when queried by The Times.
  — Dakota Smith, latimes.com, 18 June 2018
• During the trial, the document alleges that Hill queried jurors about their opinions on whether Murdaugh was guilty or not.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
• The fictional country was removed from the list after NBC queried the addition.
  — Rachael Bunyan, Time, 19 Dec. 2019

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