indirect question

Example Sentences

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“As a talent evaluator, if the indirect question is, ‘Is Diego good enough to play at the top level in Europe?’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2021

At the Toronto news conference, a moderator paid by Searchlight mostly kept the focus on the movie, asking just one indirect question about the assault. 

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2017

An indirect question to one of the clerks helped him to an explanation of this.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold

Whether or not Helen grasped the fact that her indirect question of Elijah remained unanswered, she pursued it no farther.

From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis

John was quite unaccustomed to conversation interlarded with quotations from what he had at school irreverently called "rep.," and wondering what manner of man he had to do with he hazarded an indirect question.

From Settlers and Scouts by Strang, Herbert