How to Use inquiry in a Sentence

inquiry

noun

• The police are pursuing a new line of inquiry.
• The board ordered an inquiry to determine whether the rules had been followed.
• She refused to answer inquiries from the media about her marriage.
• Further inquiry showed that he had visited the city twice before.
• The pair were both shocked by the question and denied the inquiry.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• The questions that hovered over the inquiry from the start—what more is there to learn?
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• How far back–and how high up the chain of command–should these inquiries go?
  — Time, 13 Apr. 2018
• More than eighty House Democrats have now called for an inquiry.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 21 July 2019
• Durham's line of inquiry resembles the claims in that suit, the person said.
  — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2021
• That line of inquiry starts with a comparison of the specs.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
• But the scope of the inquiry grew as inspectors found more problems.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
• In response to inquiries about the videos, the IDF issued a series of statements.
  — Caroline Radnofsky, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• Leads turned blind; avenues of inquiry ran into blank walls, like a city lost in the dunes.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• Instead, the county’s inquiry seems to have been limited to the theft of funds.
  — AJC.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• So far the results of my egg inquiry could be distilled as (1) fat, (2) caviar.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2018
• Has there been any change in the number of prospective clients making inquiries to you for the first time?
  — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 10 Apr. 2020
• Whatever the scope of the inquiry, some fear the police will inevitably be blamed.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• The inquiry followed scandals that led to the pulling of the literature prize that year.
  — TIME, 4 Oct. 2023
• Yet, this time around the inquiry isn’t as commonplace.
  — Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 7 July 2019
• His fiery inquiry was met with ice—the press secretary did not even blink.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 17 June 2018
• Then there was the incident coming out of the gate and an inquiry to survive.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022
• And even more frightening are the contents of this inquiry.
  — Fox News, 2 May 2018
• Customers need to be rigorous in the sales inquiry process.
  — John Hayes, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
• Much the same is true in other fields of inquiry, such as efforts to raise crop yields and extend life.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• For further ticket inquiries, reach out to the point of purchase.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 20 Mar. 2020
• The team will have to sidestep attempts to politicize its inquiry.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
• Such high-level inquiries in Britain are rare and have a checkered past.
  — William Booth and Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 June 2018
• What is the state of free speech, dissent, and open inquiry on any given campus?
  — Greg Lukianoff, National Review, 1 July 2019
• Speaker and panelist inquiries can be sent to [e-mail].
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 28 June 2019
• Krivosheev told me that this mode of e-mail inquiry was unusual.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024