How to Use inquisitor in a Sentence
inquisitor
noun- He had to answer his inquisitors' questions or be thrown out of school.
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In this context, her son is both the inquisitor and the healer, the reminder of the broken past and the hope for a more stable future.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
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This other inquisitor from the Fast and Furious movies is ready to replace you.
—David Betancourt, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
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Schweizer was not the only onetime Clinton inquisitor who returned to the hunt thanks to the Weinstein story.
—David Weigel, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
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Reagan and Kennedy didn’t engage with one another so much as swat away barbs from their hostile inquisitors.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
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But this time around, he’s taken off his inquisitor’s cap, set aside the Interrotron — Dorfman is clearly talking to the side of the lens — and settled in like a kid given a private tour of the toy store.
—Robert Abele, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
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But this time around, he's taken off his inquisitor's cap, set aside the Interrotron — Dorfman is clearly talking to the side of the lens — and settled in like a kid given a private tour of the toy store.
—Robert Abele, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
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The initial game, Dark Heresy, focused on inquisitors rooting out enemies of the Empire.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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Cornwell surely knew there was a fan in Morris, an enthusiast of the elusive as much as an inquisitor.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
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The inquisitor, in this case, is a mysterious traveler in the year 1242 who arrives at a crowded inn north of Paris, seeking news of three children wanted by the king.
—Soman Chainani, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016
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Its agents—inquisitors in all but name—are determined to find and kidnap an infant Lyra, who is already a subject of prophecy and import.
—Sarah Jones, New Republic, 30 Oct. 2017
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Cassidy cast a wary eye at an inquisitor who suggested that the officials have called a good series, given the amount of physical play.
—BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
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The firm, serious face poised above the black polo neck could be the hawklike visage of an inspirational priest, an inquisitor or cult leader.
—Momus, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2007
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The Trump White House now faces a quasi-permanent adversary, or at least inquisitor, and the public will be watching to see how, and whether, this long-running duel comes to a conclusion.
—Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
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Then there was the presidential question, which his inquisitor, the Vanity Fair writer Nick Bilton, posed while noting that he had been asked to avoid the subject.
—Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2017
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Not only do the ruthless inquisitors await, but Cervantes’ dungeon-mates have seized his possessions.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
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Bailey was the last witness to appear before Justice Donald Alexander, and he had been prepped by his attorney to throw himself on the mercy of his inquisitor.
—Andrew Goldman, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
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Don’t wait for your busybody inquisitor to react to your explanation.
—New York Times, 1 June 2018
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An inquisitor investigates the mysterious death of a monk and alleged witchcraft in the Middle Ages.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
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What, one inquisitor asked, was the wavelength of the dim light, calculated in the infinitesimal unit of measurement known as angstroms?
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 16 June 2021
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A couple sits before an inquisitor grasping their tax returns.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
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Meadows was among the most assertive Republican inquisitors, the transcripts show.
—Anchorage Daily News, 5 Nov. 2019
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Two men are being tortured, their inquisitor intent upon learning the fate of the Shroud of Antioch, a religious relic stolen from a church in Toulouse five years earlier.
—The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
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Murray was one; the other was Joseph Kosuth, who was not only one of the pioneers of conceptual art but also its strictest and most demanding inquisitor.
—Barry Schwabsky, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
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On the bench, Blackwell can be an aggressive inquisitor during oral arguments.
—Bill Rankin, ajc, 28 Feb. 2020
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Throughout her news conference, Ledecka seemed less astounded that a ski racer who splits her time on the snowboarding pro circuit could win an Olympic Alpine gold medal than her inquisitors.
—Bill Pennington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
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Dvorkin can thus be called, without much exaggeration, the Kremlin’s grand inquisitor.
—Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
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On Tuesday afternoon he could be found at the Augusta Best Inn parking lot, alternating between texts, phone calls and ride-up inquisitors.
—Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
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In the California senator’s first two-and-a-half years in office, she’s built her reputation as a fierce inquisitor, tangling on Capitol Hill with a who’s who of Trump appointees and nominees.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
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To postpone their execution, a group of women accused of witchcraft lure their inquisitor into witnessing the witches’ Sabbath.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 Mar. 2021
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