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
  • In any event, the bad blood between the foundation and the city well predates that inquiry.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Yet, this time around the inquiry isn’t as commonplace.
    Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 7 July 2019
  • The committee has four weeks to complete the inquiry, Thakur said.
    Vedika Sud, CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Staff at the Budget Suites did not respond to inquiries about whether the gunman stayed there.
    Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
  • 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 inquiry began with a narrow claim that King’s inner circle included men with ties to the Communist Party.
    Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • After a difficult delivery, an infant dies and the father demands an inquiry into her methods.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024

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