How to Use interrogate in a Sentence

interrogate

verb
  • Strangers love to stop skaters on the street to interrogate the ollie.
    — Zach Harris, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The Last Wish world premiere as a bonus), and has to interrogate all four guys from the losing team.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Broady leaned in, pushing the girl to tune in to and interrogate her senses.
    — Danielle Dreilinger, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Ho’s Sponge Round Cake interrogates this kind of use of force.
    — Vivienne Chow, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The next day, the Tribunal has to call in Bayleigh, Dee, and Kaycee to interrogate even though this is all just going through the motions.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 June 2020
  • Drawings can be funny and it’s okay to laugh at them and interrogate the nature of good and bad.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 21 June 2021
  • His son and son-in-law have hired lawyers and been interrogated.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • So there is the scene where the detective sits down in front of the female suspect to interrogate her.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2022
  • The book opens with the maid being interrogated by the police, and the rest of the story is sort of her confession to them.
    — The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Jimmy and the other star then have to interrogate them about the statement, trying to catch them in a lie.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • This was indeed a lucky break; even the most up-to-date C.S.I. units can’t interrogate people who’ve been dead 200 years.
    — Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The people have the full right to criticize its servants, to elect them, and to interrogate them.
    — Elias Meseret, Fox News, 9 June 2018
  • Big interrogates Kenny Boy, who decides to take the fall for the entire escapade as a way to protect the kids.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • While being interrogated, the police show him his old bike lock that was found in Bryce's room with his name on the lock.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 22 Aug. 2019
  • As soon as the bus stopped, the local police came to interrogate my mother.
    — Kanyinsola Oye, Teen Vogue, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Rufus, with Jiya’s warning to beware on the top of his mind, finds the scarred man and interrogates him along with Flynn.
    — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
  • If there's no Shara to interrogate, maybe her room has some answers.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • That the man who had interrogated them for years was waiting for them in that same room that had turned Vang so quiet.
    — Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • A lot of them had to do with interrogating her thought patterns and emotions.
    — Lydia Wang, Women's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a scene in Torn where Max interrogates his mom about falling in love with Anker so soon after Alex died.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2023
  • One of the important things to do in our everyday life is just to interrogate that.
    — Meena Harris, Glamour, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Much of the news media, in turn, is eager to interrogate the president.
    — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
  • He was interrogated for more than 12 hours, punched twice in the face and addressed with a racial slur, according to the complaint.
    — Christine Hauser, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The judge requested that Rivera’s home be searched and that he be interrogated.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • She was interrogated by the Gestapo 14 times and tortured, her back scorched with a red-hot poker and all of her toenails pulled out.
    — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
  • As Quell is interrogated, her captors attempt to shoot at her in an extreme test of both mind and body at the same time.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Agents handcuffed and interrogated the man, then put him in the room's shower.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The fiction writer must craft lies to probe and interrogate the essence of truth and reality.
    — Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The open plan was ideal for the shot showing the teens who had been with the missing girl being interrogated by the officers.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2024
  • The film is told in flashback as Cynthia is being interrogated for the murder of Joyce’s abusive husband, Jimmy (played by Willis).
    — Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025

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