Use question in a sentence
Sentences starting with question
- Question How much will you have to pay? [11]
- Question the conjurer, or he'll get his new clothes with far too little trouble. [10]
- Question and reply now followed one another in rapid succession, and both were soon acquainted with everything worth knowing; nay, Hermon had even delivered Daphne's rose to his friend, and informed him what had befallen the Gaul who was being brought into the house. [10]
- Question before the Committee, undisposed of: Who nominated Samuel Price for Moderator? [9]
- Question by District Attorney. [5]
- Question ruled out. [5]
Sentences ending with question
- That accounts for your question. [9]
- Please give me your opinion in writing on this question. [7]
- Ameni would tell you that ten souls, no, nor a hundred, do not matter when the safety of the whole is in question. [10]
- The trouble is, you only see one side of this question. [9]
- But why do you ask that question? [9]
- She said she would be carried before the gate in the morning, and in half an hour Paris would be ours without any question. [5]
- If my conscience would allow me to make a change, but that is out of the question. [5]
- Otherwise, any happiness worth having is out of the question. [9]
- Come now, what world you have done, if your son had been in question? [9]
- He seemed pleased with the question. [11]
Short sentences using question
- The only question was, where. [12]
- Her question, indeed, was intimate. [9]
- The other forbore to question. [11]
- The question of the Seal. [5]
- An accident decided the question. [9]
- He called for the question. [5]
- But what?--that is the question. [5]
- The man answered the question. [2]
- Her husband repeated the question. [11]
- But the question startled her. [9]
Sentences containing question two or more times
- Then he added, with a kind of query in the question apart from the question itself: "Where is the great man--where's Stafford to-night? [11]
- Once General Grant was asked a question about a matter which had been much debated by the public and the newspapers; he answered the question without any hesitancy. [5]
- She had built up, after each invasion, her defences more carefully and solidly than before, only to be again astonished and dismayed by the next onslaught, until at length the question had become insistent--the question of an alliance for purposes of greater security. [9]
- I suppose we truly stand for the public sentiment of Sangamon on the great question of the repeal, although we do not yet represent many numbers who have taken a distinct position on the question. [7]
- I wish further to say that I do not propose to question the patriotism or to assail the motives of any man or class of men, but rather to confine myself strictly to the naked merits of the question. [7]
- The difference between the Buchanan men on the one hand, and the Douglas men and the Republicans on the other, has not been on a question of principle, but on a question of fact. [7]
- To hear the students jubilate, one would suppose that the question of whether Tell shot the apple or didn't was an important matter; whereas it ranks in importance exactly with the question of whether Washington chopped down the cherry-tree or didn't. [5]
- I remember Thackeray's story of his asking some simple question of a royal or semi-royal personage whom he met in the courtyard of an hotel, which question his Highness did not answer, but called a subordinate to answer for him. [6]
- He liked that; she had a great deal of talent; there was no question of that; if she were a man there could be no question of her future. [8]
- Only in our self-confident day of the popularization of knowledge--thanks to that most powerful engine of ignorance, the diffusion of printed matter--has the question of the freedom of will been put on a level on which the question itself cannot exist. [2]
More example sentences with the word question in them
- You may spare yourself the question, Caesar. [10]
- You may answer your question yourself. [5]
- But now--now ask your question at once. [10]
- Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
- Do I understand your Lordship to question my courage? [9]
- I question not your honesty in that; I but warn you, that is all. [5]
- And another, a young lawyer, who declared that he would rather face a wild cat than ask Whipple a question on the new code. [9]
- Let me tell you, sir, it is not now a question about Jimmy Madison or Jimmy Armstrong. [4]
- I appeal to you whether he did not say it was a question for the Supreme Court? [7]
- We all wish you to reconsider the question of resigning; not that we would wish to retain you greatly against your wish and interest, but that your decision may be at least a very well-considered one. [7]
- Suppose I told you that I, your daughter, thought there might be two sides to the political question that is agitating you, and wished in fairness to hear the other side, as I intended to tell you when you were less busy? [9]
- He knows and you know that the question is not settled, and that his ill-timed experiment to settle it has made it worse than it ever was before. [7]
- But I told you it was a delicate question, and warned you to deal with it deftly--to answer it dubiously, and leave them a little in the dark. [5]
- But why did you choose a detail of my question which could be answered only with vague hearsay evidence, and go right by one which could have been answered with deadly facts?--facts in everybody's reach, facts which none can dispute. [5]
- I will see you again at court if not before--when and where we will settle the question whether you or the widow shall have the land. [7]
- Let me ask you a question, Father Damon. [4]
- She dared not yet face the question she had seen he was about to ask. [11]
- All the first years, their only question had been--asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive? [5]
- They have been wrangling over this question for at least forty years. [7]
- I thought I would question him a little myself. [5]
- Hood, which never would have occurred had not Eliphalet proved without question the incapacity of the ancient manager. [9]
- Starting from these words he put this question to his hearers, "How do we apprehend the Goodness of the Divinity? [10]
- Yet not a word which could have resembled a question escaped his beardless lips while he examined, sewed, and bandaged the deep sword thrust with the skill and care of a surgeon. [10]
- I said that, without remarking upon the singularity of such a question, coming, as it did, from a member of that same government, I would inform him that I was clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology. [5]
- It is hardly without a smile that we resuscitate the old question of the 'vis insita' of the muscular fibre, so famous in the discussions of Haller and his contemporaries. [3]
- I answered him with what carefulness I could, and brought round the question of your death, by hint and allusion getting him to speak of the mode of execution. [11]
- Washington sprang forward, with the eager question on his lips, and the Senator said: "We may rejoice freely, now, my son--Providence has crowned our efforts with success. [5]
- Mr. Burlingame went with me all the time, and helped me question the men--throwing away invitations to dinner with the princes and foreign dignitaries, and neglecting all sorts of things to accommodate me. [5]
- Contrasting its failure with its high pretensions, it is fair to call it an imposition; whether an expressly fraudulent contrivance or not, some might be ready to question. [6]
- His answer, bringing with it her remembrance of her husband at certain times when it was not safe to question him, had silenced her. [9]
- He was taken with her in a certain' measure, in a certain way; the question was in what measure, in what way. [8]
- Then, approaching him with both arms extended joyfully, she exclaimed: "Thus you ought to speak and feel, and therein is the answer to the question which has agitated my soul since yesterday. [10]
- Natasha watched him with an intent gaze that confused him, as if she were trying to find in his face the answer to some question. [2]
- He replied, therefore, with a smile, as one to whom the question suggested a very familiar class of facts. [6]
- There's no one with a right to question my actions. [13]
- I have sometimes wished I knew the exact site of Thebes, so that I could rise in the audience, and stop that question, at any rate. [4]
- He felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his eyes. [2]
- I do not wish to question unduly the intellects of those members of this House who by their votes will prove that they have been convinced by the gentleman's argument. [9]
- I am quite willing to answer any gentleman in the crowd who asks an intelligent question. [7]
- This constitutional question will probably never be better settled than it is, until it shall pass under judicial consideration; but I do think no man who is clear on the questions of expediency need feel his conscience much pricked upon this. [7]
- If the Parson will permit me, I should say that the chief clothes question abroad just now is, how to get any; and it is the same with the dinners. [4]
- I think Congress will pass it and settle the vexed question permanently. [5]
- Many of them will do so not because they like his position on this question, but because they prefer him, being wrong on this, to another whom they consider farther wrong on other questions. [7]
- I think it will become an important and practical question. [7]
- To her question why she, a heathen, wore this about her, the old woman replied, "You can never tell what may help you some day. [10]
- The question is, Why not work him in the field of foreign literature? [8]
- The question is, why are they so? [9]
- Yes, and another who, in spite of himself, has fallen in love with Victoria and would like to linger a while longer, even though it were with the paltry excuse of discussing that world-old question of hers--Can sublime happiness and achievement go together? [9]
- He denounces all who question the correctness of that decision, as offering violent resistance to it. [7]
- The question is: Who manages her, and how can you get at that person or those persons? [6]
- The question is, who is going to steal out to the sakkia to- night, to shut the one sluice and open the other? [11]
- It was Bowman who asked this question, he being closer to Clark than any of the other captains. [9]
- It was Senator Whitredge--only, last autumn so pleased to meet Mr. Crewe at Mr. Flint's--who asked the hypocritical question, "Who is Humphrey Crewe? [9]
- Once in a while I paused to ask him a question as he sat with his chair tilted back and his feet on the table, reading a detective story. [9]
- We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall not be able to re-establish the policy until the absence of it shall have demonstrated the necessity for it in the minds of men heretofore opposed to it. [7]
- The question was, which way to retreat; but all were so flurried that nobody seemed to have even a guess to offer. [5]
- Her lips, too, which she had but rarely and timidly opened for a question or an answer, were in constant motion; for how much she desired to know, how many questions she had to ask the silent husband who had endured such terrible suffering. [10]
- The only question which intruded itself was, whether he might not have preferred the company of one to that of two. [6]
- The question is, whether you knew that I am his mother, and it was not concealed from you. [10]
- The question is, whether toleration is anything but indifference. [4]
- But the question whether the camp was advantageous or disadvantageous remained for him undecided. [2]
- I insist that whether I shall be a whole man or only the half of one, in comparison with others is a question in which I am somewhat concerned, and one which no other man can have a sacred right of deciding for me. [7]
- The question was whether he could ever bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. [2]
- The question arises, whether do the London critics, or the old Northern squires, understand the matter best? [14]
- The question was where Miss Lamont should pose. [4]
- On Morgan's command, where it is now sent, as I understand, depends the question whether the enemy will get to the Ohio River in another place. [7]
- My dear sir, when you are as old a traveler as I am, you will not ask such a question as that. [5]
- Like many Southerners, when it became a question of go or stay, Mr. Brinsmade's unfaltering love for the Union had kept him in. [9]
- The question recurs, what will satisfy them? [7]
- To the question what was to be done with Madame Cournal, another answered that she was to be waylaid as she was coming from the Intendance, kidnapped, and hurried to a nunnery to be imprisoned for life. [11]
- The question is what to believe, for much that we have heard about her is almost certainly apocryphal. [5]
- Well he knew what the question in her eyes meant or something of what it meant, so inexplicably is the soul of woman linked to events. [9]
- Now, I ask, what is the reason Judge Douglas is so chary about coming to the exact question? [7]
- The question is, what did he put it in for? [7]
- The judge and Wetherell heard the question with different emotions. [9]
- But six months were to intervene before the beginning of my duties--how to fill that time profitably was the question. [11]
- Commands, threats, punishments, were out of the question with her; the mere physical effects of crossing her will betrayed themselves in such changes of expression and manner that it would have been senseless to attempt to govern her in any such way. [6]
- No doubt they were not very valuable, and without question he more than made up for them in my mother's bill. [9]
- But if you were forty, I should question its propriety; if you were thirty, I should veto it, and you are but a little more than twenty. [6]
- Clay and Webster were dead before this question arose; by what authority shall our Senator say they would espouse his side of it if alive? [7]
- If every one were as perfect in the marriage relation as those who are reading these lines, the question of the wife's letters would never arise. [4]
- If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
- The group had welcomed the suggestion eagerly, for on this side of the question they were not so well equipped as on others. [11]
- In this hot weather walking would be quite out of the question, either for you or for her; and I know she would persist in doing it if left to herself, and arrive half killed. [14]
- To the moment we will rise, and there shall be no question of satisfaction, no discontent anywhere--eh, shall it be so, if m'sieu' the General can spare the time also? [11]
- The only information we obtained about it was from its porter at the station, who replied to the question, "Is it the best? [4]
- Question, what are we going to do about it? [11]
- Venters knew he wasted time in pondering the question, but it held a fascination not easily dispelled. [13]
- The first question was, Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars? [5]
- And the question was, What would people do? [11]
- So the question was, what to do? [5]
- The next question was, what to be ill with. [6]
- The same question was written in her yearning eyes, staring at the spot where the gray of his hunting shirt showed through the bushes at the bend. [9]
- Caracalla's first question was with reference to the Parthian ambassadors. [10]
- The only question was whether it had not already grown too late for him to visit her and her father, who went to bed with the chickens. [10]
- The question now was where Philip might be found. [10]
- One, I remember, was very voluble, and over-explained everything, so that we became afraid to ask him a question. [6]
- The question now was to which the goddess would prove most faithful. [10]
- While the attorney was thus engaged, the dwarf was groping under the table, muttering desperate imprecations on himself, and mankind in general, and all inanimate objects to boot, which suggested to Mr Brass the question, 'what's the matter? [12]
- She hoped it was this; and, at any cost, she must know the truth as to this question, which was not based on mere curiosity. [10]
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