How to Use inquiry in a Sentence

inquiry

noun

• The police are pursuing a new line of inquiry.
• The board ordered an inquiry to determine whether the rules had been followed.
• She refused to answer inquiries from the media about her marriage.
• Further inquiry showed that he had visited the city twice before.
• One last thought and line of inquiry.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• But that did not end the inquiry.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• United have made inquiries as to the cost of a deal.
  — James McNicholas, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• The inquiry did not so much conclude as trail off.
  — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 10 June 2026
• One deals with all your customer inquiries.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
• These small inquiries pepper the day.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 20 Apr. 2026
• How far back–and how high up the chain of command–should these inquiries go?
  — Time, 13 Apr. 2018
• More than eighty House Democrats have now called for an inquiry.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 21 July 2019
• The pair were both shocked by the question and denied the inquiry.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• That inquiry was to report in April.
  — ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
• Krivosheev told me that this mode of e-mail inquiry was unusual.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2021
• His fiery inquiry was met with ice—the press secretary did not even blink.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 17 June 2018
• Do your best to connect with her without inquiry.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
• Still, all these innocent inquiries have me even more on edge.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 26 Feb. 2026
• The movie, in its way, is a rigorous inquiry.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
• Quentin called a halt to proceedings with an inquiry.
  — Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
• The questions that hovered over the inquiry from the start—what more is there to learn?
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• Soft inquiries do not impact your credit score.
  — Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
• Leads turned blind; avenues of inquiry ran into blank walls, like a city lost in the dunes.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• Saunders gets a half-dozen inquiries each week and has done more than two dozen showings so far.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
• Some of this pushback likely has to do with their methods of inquiry.
  — Christopher Prewitt, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• But the scope of the inquiry grew as inspectors found more problems.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
• The more realistic inquiry is whether this kind of event can be made safer.
  — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
• Aristotle wrote that every line of inquiry aims at some good.
  — Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
• Shaker and his lawyer did not respond to inquiries about his release and bail.
  — ABC News, 8 July 2026
• The board has yet to announce any formal findings from the inquiry.
  — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025