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 what does the query even mean?
  — Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025
• The answer to each query was no.
  — David K. Li, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
• The query seemed to put him slightly off.
  — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
• Ross did not respond to those queries.
  — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 30 May 2026
• Take those two Grok queries about Venezuela.
  — Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
• What was missing from your initial query were specifics.
  — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
• Not all queries are quite so serious.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2026
• Simply put, no logs of your queries are kept by the search engine.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
• Damn, another banger of a query.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
• Four states did not respond to The Post's query.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2026
• My query is does this sound like a man who is mentally stable?
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
• 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
• His office did not respond to later queries about that case.
  — Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• No e-book was available, and a query to the publisher went nowhere.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• This crucial query has torn the show's fandom asunder for a decade-plus.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• There are still small-scale queries people can run on their own without Dune.
  — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 26 May 2026
• In my opinion, your response to your wife’s query should be – no response at all.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
• Those queries are part of a protocol aimed at offering the best help.
  — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 19 Apr. 2026
• The suit goes on to say that follow-up queries to Atlantic were ignored.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• Each group of queries should link to a specific page that answers those questions.
  — Jason Phillips, jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2026
• The front-end team sees that their interface is slow because of database queries.
  — Mudit Singh, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• Thanks for all the great queries, which have been edited and shortened for clarity.
  — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
• None of these were crises when a team of 10 analysts was writing queries.
  — Louis Landry, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• That means looking at the full path from the search query to the landing page to the conversion.
  — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 28 May 2026
• If your query calls for it, Search will create a custom app to help you with the problem.
  — ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
• For weeks, the department has ignored press queries about complaints like these.
  — Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
• Whitaker did not respond to a query seeking comment.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
• Agents and editors receive hundreds of queries a week.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026

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
• For its last week, guests turned the tables and queried Colbert.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2026
• For a second, Harbaugh thought about it when a reporter queried him.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2019
• So query whether shareholders would have standing.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• McVay said when queried about his planned sideline attire.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Or queries Hugh Laurie about what should be done about Meghan Markle.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• The actor would query the dialogue or ask questions about the intent.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• When queried about her age, one defendant took the Fifth Amendment.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• 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
• So query whether the state is really gonna let this continue for any period of time.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Ferreira seemed to query the specifics without disputing the broader idea.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Apr. 2026
• 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
• The state’s disease reporting system lacks a way to query the data for such insights.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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 celebrity chef frequently weighs in on viewers’ queries about his hit shows on social media.
  — Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
• Customer's travel agents can query airline APIs to book a flight.
  — Kaustubh Phatak, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• Users continue to query its meaning (and why people say it at all) on Google, in high volume.
  — Sarah Scott, Parents, 29 Oct. 2025
• Google has released its search data on the top queried national parks of all time, and the winner comes as no surprise to us.
  — Emilee Coblentz, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2025
• The department queried them about again in their pre-refunding survey questions.
  — Liz Capo McCormick, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• 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
• The adviser might query you on your finances and goals, then make investment choices on your behalf.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
• Nearly two-thirds of the buyers queried have not contacted their agents since buying their homes, the company found.
  — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
• Chopra was queried on when the first Sikh emigrated to the United States.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• Applications can query the orientation of the two screens and the position of the hinge.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
• Colbert queried Jada, 52, while searching for the proper term to call Will.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• In all, six of eight Equity leasing agents queried told testers they could be denied a rental based on credit history.
  — Robin Urevich, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
• But the answers generated by the tool are at times contradictory based on how users prompt and query the software.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
• Journalists can use the platforms to query followers by posting questions to their network.
  — Kirstin Pellizzaro, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026