cross-question

Example Sentences

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Now, Jackie dear, please don't cross question me.

From The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island by Penrose, Margaret

Well she knew that under the escort of that exalted rank she was safe from any possibility of cross question or interference.

From Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters by King, Charles

Another variety of cross question is played as follows.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

"What do you want?" was the cross question, given by way of answer.

From The Midnight Queen by Fleming, May Agnes