interrogative
Example Sentences
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Over the holiday season, there were online pile-ons galore, with straight women repeatedly taking gay critics of the show to task over their negative or merely interrogative opinions of the series.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2026
At charity events, auctioneers insert interrogative phrases, such as “would you give?,” an appeal to the bidders’ generosity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Had Cooper approached this question with the same interrogative spirit with which she approached her own narrative assumptions, the book would have felt more complete.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2020
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., was presiding over the Senate when Schumer posed his interrogative.
From Fox News • Sep. 26, 2020
She led me, not to the stiff chair set up, interrogative style, in front of her desk, but to the plush crimson cushion of her window seat.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.