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
And so, instead of saying Ashoke’s name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as “Are you listening to me?”
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing interrogative
Language and Grammar - Introductory
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Language and Grammar - Middle School
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