How to Use interrogator in a Sentence

interrogator

noun
  • So, say a rock hits the track 20 miles away from the interrogator.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But Allen kept cool, and after a while, the interrogator stormed out and slammed the door.
    Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The corpse of Jameh’s lead interrogator was thrown off a building, then dragged through the streets.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The interrogator was my daughter, who was three at the time.
    Jessamine Chan, ELLE, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The interrogator bit down hard on the towel and screamed and his eyes welled and reddened.
    Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 29 Jan. 2020
  • When the interrogator brought out his tools, Marwa tried to turn away.
    Greg Betza, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
  • Laser light pulses are sent out from the interrogator into the fiber.
    Carolyn Wilke, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
  • His chief interrogator then grabbed a rubber hose and whipped his hands.
    Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • One would-be witness, the C.I.A.’s chief interrogator in its black site prison network, died before the men were charged.
    Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • William, it’s revealed, served as a prison guard and interrogator at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Most innocent people have no idea that the interrogators can lie to you.
    CBS News, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Most innocent people have no idea that the interrogators can lie to you.
    CBS News, 12 July 2017
  • Isaac stars as William, a military interrogator who learned to count cards during a prison stint.
    Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
  • But the Special Forces interrogators don't seem impressed with the Schwartz & Sandy's co-owner's passion for self-care.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The crowd laughed, perhaps at the idea of having cows at home, or maybe at having the question put to them by so unlikely an interrogator.
    Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The guards and interrogators had always said no one was given books or newspapers in our ward.
    Hossein Derakhshan, WIRED, 21 July 2023
  • Amir was coy at first, but eventually the interrogators drew enough out of him to identify at least two of them.
    Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • Rodriguez and Haspel had argued internally that the videotapes showed the faces of the interrogators and if made public could open them up to reprisals.
    Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • In their headquarters, the basement of a grocery and coffee shop near the church on the main square, an interrogator scrutinized her phone.
    Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • My interrogators visited each morning, but by the third day the mood had lightened.
    The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • But when his interrogator mentions the correct place, the terrorist’s face betrays a flash of rage.
    Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2021
  • But there’s a major contrast in Act 2, when the action moves to Richard’s home and Craig turns into a relentless interrogator of his father.
    Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
  • The interrogators also asked if their actions were akin to those of the Islamic State terrorist group.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In its original form, the game consisted of three players, an interrogator and two subjects, a man and a woman.
    Tony Rothman, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2015
  • The scene was a county jail and the interrogators were inmates in prison garb — soft cotton scrubs, some blue, some brown, some orange, depending on the status of their cases.
    New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • The interrogators thought that Christsonday was really the devil, showing the culture gap between the common folk and the elite.
    National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Cruz did not respond to his interrogators at Fiola, except to offer pleasantries wildly out of sync with the shouts and screams around him.
    Avi Selk, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The interrogator whose lap Mr. bin al-Shibh sat on has never been publicly identified.
    Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • His fighting back against this diktat helps make the character more than just a passive interrogator.
    Daniel D’addario, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Before that, the closest thing to an official count came from a British military intelligence interrogator, Theodore Pantcheff, shortly after the end of the war.
    Claire Moses, New York Times, 22 May 2024

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