interrogative
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She includes any information-seeking act, from a verbal interrogative to the sniff one might give a carton of milk to gauge its freshness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
The interrogative form does all the work of asking aloud — with none of the actual asking — why mom still thinks you can speak for a four-years-ago ex.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2022
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., was presiding over the Senate when Schumer posed his interrogative.
From Fox News ● Sep. 26, 2020
He stood with his head on one side and himself on one side, in a bullying, interrogative manner, and he threw his forefinger at Mr. Wopsle,—as it were to mark him out—before biting it again.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Speaking in a deadpan monotone, he is prone to responding to interrogatives with a curt “affirmative” or “negative” and saying things like “normal is for normal people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2020
Piqued by the exclusion, he circulates a public letter, in which his resentments are masked by interrogatives and faux naïveté:
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2017
Harry felt the enthusiasm of friendship; an hundred interrogatives were put to him in a moment as where had he been? where was he going? how did he do? &c. &c.
From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by G. M. Godden
The people ran to the water's edge and began firing a broadside of down east interrogatives with such rapidity as to nearly swamp him.
From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton
This word is one of the interrogatives in the Indian language, and is equivalent to "what" in the English language.
From History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author by Andrew J. Blackbird
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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Language and Grammar - Middle School
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