How to Use interrogator in a Sentence

interrogator

noun
  • His chief interrogator then grabbed a rubber hose and whipped his hands.
    Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • So, say a rock hits the track 20 miles away from the interrogator.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The interrogator bit down hard on the towel and screamed and his eyes welled and reddened.
    Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Laser light pulses are sent out from the interrogator into the fiber.
    Carolyn Wilke, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
  • When the interrogator brought out his tools, Marwa tried to turn away.
    Greg Betza, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
  • But Allen kept cool, and after a while, the interrogator stormed out and slammed the door.
    Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The corpse of Jameh’s lead interrogator was thrown off a building, then dragged through the streets.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Most innocent people have no idea that the interrogators can lie to you.
    CBS News, 27 June 2020
  • The guards and interrogators had always said no one was given books or newspapers in our ward.
    Hossein Derakhshan, WIRED, 21 July 2023
  • My interrogators visited each morning, but by the third day the mood had lightened.
    The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Isaac stars as William, a military interrogator who learned to count cards during a prison stint.
    Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Amir was coy at first, but eventually the interrogators drew enough out of him to identify at least two of them.
    Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • As two men face police interrogators, a story emerges of twisted liaisons.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026
  • His fighting back against this diktat helps make the character more than just a passive interrogator.
    Daniel D’addario, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Akasha’s housemate, on the other hand, spent around 30 minutes in the room with the interrogators.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
  • The same applied to the interrogators themselves.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But when his interrogator mentions the correct place, the terrorist’s face betrays a flash of rage.
    Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Salazar, a fierce interrogator, chided him about leaving Rodríguez in charge.
    Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • His interrogator conceded that the police must have gotten the wrong guy and released him within weeks.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The crowd laughed, perhaps at the idea of having cows at home, or maybe at having the question put to them by so unlikely an interrogator.
    Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In its original form, the game consisted of three players, an interrogator and two subjects, a man and a woman.
    Tony Rothman, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2015
  • Later, Mazen paid two hundred thousand pounds to his interrogators, in the hope of better treatment.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • That was ward number four, and in front of it is Ward 209, which is where all the interrogators usually stay.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
  • In their headquarters, the basement of a grocery and coffee shop near the church on the main square, an interrogator scrutinized her phone.
    Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Cruz did not respond to his interrogators at Fiola, except to offer pleasantries wildly out of sync with the shouts and screams around him.
    Avi Selk, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Rodriguez and Haspel had argued internally that the videotapes showed the faces of the interrogators and if made public could open them up to reprisals.
    Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • The interrogators also asked if their actions were akin to those of the Islamic State terrorist group.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The scene was a county jail and the interrogators were inmates in prison garb — soft cotton scrubs, some blue, some brown, some orange, depending on the status of their cases.
    New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • On the other side of the channel, Bucky finds himself in front of a Luftwaffe interrogator named Hausmann.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
  • If the interrogator fails to determine which player is which, the computer is declared the winner and the machine is described as being able to think.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 21 July 2023

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