How to Use inquisitor in a Sentence

inquisitor

noun

• He had to answer his inquisitors' questions or be thrown out of school.
• 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
• This other inquisitor from the Fast and Furious movies is ready to replace you.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The initial game, Dark Heresy, focused on inquisitors rooting out enemies of the Empire.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Don’t wait for your busybody inquisitor to react to your explanation.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2018
• An inquisitor investigates the mysterious death of a monk and alleged witchcraft in the Middle Ages.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• 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
• A couple sits before an inquisitor grasping their tax returns.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Meadows was among the most assertive Republican inquisitors, the transcripts show.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• On the bench, Blackwell can be an aggressive inquisitor during oral arguments.
  — Bill Rankin, ajc, 28 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Dvorkin can thus be called, without much exaggeration, the Kremlin’s grand inquisitor.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024