How to Use interrogation in a Sentence

interrogation

noun
  • Miss Scott couldn’t bear to look at him and fled to an interrogation room.
    Mandi Bierly, TVLine, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Of course, the convo needs to flow, not feel like an interrogation.
    Lindsay Geller, Women's Health, 22 June 2023
  • Bush Hager asked her co-host, who laughed off the interrogation.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • After a 30-minute interrogation, the border agent looked at her again and asked her to spell her last name.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
  • In the early songs, this often takes the form of a self-interrogation or murder.
    Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The goal was to persuade him to come with them for a more formal interrogation back at their office.
    Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In custody, there are clues to help gauge the gravity of the interrogation.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Kourtney probed her sister near the end of the five-minute interrogation.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 16 Dec. 2022
  • As the marketing shows, there’s a big interrogation scene between the two of you.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2024
  • The interrogation record notes that the deed was soon accomplished by one of Sharatha’s brothers: their sister was found dead in the Strip.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
  • McGee pulls him into interrogation, and Yang claims to have lost his badge.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The Times was not shown any part of the interrogation complex, including the area where music was played.
    Bilal Shbair, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • Someone picked up at once and commenced a long interrogation that kept her on the line: Address?
    Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The show will also feature interrogation tapes and courtroom footage of the case and the latest updates.
    Katie O'Brien, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The interrogation should have ended right then and there.
    Kerry Kennedy, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
  • The gazes of my classmates felt like interrogation lights.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • The interrogation by the Secret Service at a D.C. show.
    Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
  • To those on the receiving end of this interrogation, the questions can feel deeply ironic.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And then, the formal interrogations were once or twice a week for several hours.
    Peter Bergen, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • During the interrogations of the film crew, the intelligence forces asked them to pressure me to withdraw the film from the Cannes Festival.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • The story opens in 2009 with a police interrogation, all too routine for many Uyghurs.
    Dan Keane, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Two days later, he was taken down the hall for an interrogation.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Sanders also led a one-hour interrogation of a person identified as a witness in the case, court records show.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2022
  • After the interrogation, Johnson learned that that was a lie.
    Colleen Halpin, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Summer 2000, that was a little hard with the interrogation scenes.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Perez knew that police are entitled to lie in interrogations and said so, but Peraza kept on.
    Rachel Clarke, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Within minutes of starting the interrogation, the motion states, Miles was told that someone had been killed.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • During the interrogations, Alam said he was pressured to reveal the locations of the protest leaders.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Because of the Lego format, this isn’t a searing interrogation but a celebrity-friendly portrait.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Estela’s duties include cleaning, cooking, and—most important—taking care of the couple’s daughter; the novel consists of her recollection, delivered in an interrogation room, of the events leading up to the daughter’s untimely death.
    The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

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