Use questions in a sentence
Sentences ending with questions
- When I wrote you before, I did not intend, nor do I now, to engage in an argument with you on military questions. [7]
- But why do you ask these questions? [10]
- I knowed he would see I was wet, and then he would be asking questions. [5]
- But a true woman can always show kindness to everyone whom she does not scorn, so though she blushed deeply at the sight of the man whose kiss she had returned, she received him cordially, and with sympathetic questions. [10]
- I suppose you will say, what we have heard you say before, that you only asked questions. [11]
- 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]
- His friends who were not "saved," closed in on him to find the meaning of his words, but he pulled himself together, looked blankly at them, and asked them questions. [11]
- So with him we have played that game which has vanquished so many guides for us --imbecility and idiotic questions. [5]
- And though it was too dark for Pierre to see, he felt that a suppressed smile of kindliness puckered the soldier's lips as he put these questions. [2]
- I have been very near to him, and have tried not to worry him or ask many foolish questions. [9]
Short sentences using questions
- You ask such strange questions. [10]
- Why all these questions? [5]
- I ask no questions. [9]
- He asked many questions. [9]
- I ask these questions. [7]
- Beaupere asked other questions. [5]
- She asked no questions. [11]
- Burlingame asked two questions more. [11]
- Tonight she asked no questions. [4]
- Why, by answering my questions. [11]
Sentences containing questions two or more times
- Whether the questions which assail my young friend have risen in my reader's mind or not, he knows perfectly well that nobody can keep such questions from springing up in every young mind of any force or honesty. [6]
- Mr. Crewe, as political-geniuses will, asked as many questions as the emperor of Germany--pertinent questions about State politics. [9]
- Three, four, or half a dozen questions are prominent at a given time; the party selects its candidate, and he takes his position on each of these questions. [7]
More example sentences with the word questions in them
- Ask the questions yourself now, if you please. [10]
- To begin with, young sir, I desire to ask you but three questions at present--at present. [5]
- Assisted by a young apothecary, Sir Charles washed and dressed the wound, which was in the left groin, and to our anxious questions replied that there was a chance of recovery. [9]
- When you come, you shall ask what questions you like on that point, and I will answer to the best of my stammering ability. [14]
- I shall ask you more questions some day. [9]
- Now why are you asking silly questions about the Fire Brigade? [2]
- I have asked you a great many questions and you have not hesitated to answer, and you may know how I got into this miserable cage and why I stay in it. [10]
- A gentleman says yes to a great many things without stopping to think: a shabby fellow is known by his caution in answering questions, for fear of, compromising his pocket or himself. [6]
- During the latter years of his life he became increasingly interested in social questions, some of which partook of a semi-political character. [4]
- Only one favour would I ask: would the Herr Doctor be so kind as not to ask questions about Schimmel and myself or any member of the honoured Ueberhell family. [10]
- The questions which, without heeding his companion, she now with crimson cheeks poured upon Don Luis as if fairly frantic, he answered in brief, businesslike words. [10]
- The brief questions with which he received the blind artist were kindly, and as natural as though addressing an equal, and every remark made in connection with Hermon's answers revealed a very quick and keen intellect. [10]
- Myrtle was contented with this statement, and asked no questions, and it was a perfectly understood thing that nobody alluded to the subject in her presence. [6]
- A heavy thud with the knocker rang through the silent street, and after a few short questions from within and equally curt replies from without, a small door was opened in the great gate. [10]
- Declining the invitation with thanks, he answered the questions curtly and hurriedly and begged the resting soldiers for a guide. [10]
- Americans were overwhelmed with questions, taunts, threats, misrepresentations, the outgrowth of ignorance, and ignoring worse than ignorance, from every class of Englishmen. [6]
- She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
- He peppered me with questions concerning Junius, and Mr. Wilkes, and Mr. Franklin of Philadelphia. [9]
- I plied Cockle with questions as to what they purposed doing with me, but he was wont to turn sulky, and would answer me not a word. [9]
- Mamma is excused with a headache, but she has left me power of attorney to ask questions about our little venture. [4]
- Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
- 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]
- Plain answers I will have to plain questions, or De Carteret of St. Ouen's shall have his will of you and your precious pirate. [11]
- One reason, perhaps, why they do not care to go to places of worship is that they are liable to hear the questions they know something about handled in sermons by those who know very much less about them. [6]
- The shrewd clergyman, whose creed could be lax enough on occasion, had provided himself with authorities of all kinds to meet these awkward questions in casuistical divinity. [6]
- After Kaysarov, others whom Pierre knew came up to him, and he had not time to reply to all the questions about Moscow that were showered upon him, or to listen to all that was told him. [2]
- The object with which the brain-tapper puts his questions may be a purely benevolent and entirely disinterested one. [6]
- Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
- 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]
- These are questions which it may interest you to consider. [3]
- But touch him where we may he feels a hurt; and while Uncle Conrad and the rest press him with questions, he can only point to his head and lips, which are too weak for thinking or speaking. [10]
- Pierre felt, moreover, what the accused always feel at their trial, perplexity as to why these questions were put to him. [2]
- The questions involved were political, local, personal, and above all religious. [6]
- While other questions were being eagerly discussed, Henrica found a loving welcome in Barbara's pleasant room. [10]
- Some searching questions were asked, when it turned out that these lads were as glib as parrots with the "rules," but could not reason out a single rule or explain the principle underlying it. [5]
- There Mr. Botcher was wont to sit (when he was not depressing one of the tiles in the rotunda), surrounded by his friends and their tobacco smoke, discussing in his frank and manly fashion the public questions of the day. [9]
- His longest discussion was with Herr Van Hout, who had come to him, not only to ask questions and tell what occurred, but also to make complaints. [10]
- At first he was silent and embarrassed, but Henrica gave him no rest, and when he had once begun to answer her questions he was soon carried away by her glowing vivacity, and gave free, joyous play to his wit. [10]
- At first he was preoccupied, and answered absently across the table the questions of the Englishman and the Austrian about American politics, and talked to the lady of social prominence on his right not at all; nor to Mrs. Pomfret'--who excused him. [9]
- He knew he was in these men's power, that only by force had they brought him there, that force alone gave them the right to demand answers to their questions, and that the sole object of that assembly was to inculpate him. [2]
- At first she was ill disposed to answer any questions, but she soon felt that attitude would only do harm. [11]
- Though his head was bowed, he crossed the little garden with a swift, firm tread, and, without noticing the questions and warnings of his companions, walked at once to the impluvium. [10]
- But I didn't want to run the raft in the daytime without anybody aboard to answer questions but me; so I didn't want the plan to begin working till pretty late to-night. [5]
- He did not want her to marry and leave him, but he wanted no more troubles; he did not relish being asked awkward questions by every mountaineer he met, as to why Jenny Long didn't marry Jake Lawson. [11]
- Perhaps--" But the viscount perceived that some more questions were about to be asked; so he worked his way out of the crowd, released the sleeve, put on the coat and wandered away to seek a humble and obscure lodging. [5]
- We entertain different views upon political questions, but nobody is suffering anything. [7]
- He received no verbal answer to these mute questions, but when Hosea grasped his callous right hand in both his own and pressed it as he would have clasped a friend's, when he bade him farewell with tearful eyes, murmuring: "You shall hear from me! [10]
- She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand. [2]
- He asked her various questions about herself, which she answered with a tone not quite so calm as natural, but willingly and intelligently. [6]
- They are in utter darkness as to his opinions on any of the questions of policy which occupy the public attention. [7]
- He talked about Utah, and the Indians, and Nevada, and general American matters and questions, with our secretary and certain government officials who came with us. [5]
- I have been used, from an early period of my life, to hear the discussion of grave questions, both in politics and religion. [6]
- As they argued upon the questions of the day, the colonel did not seek to impress by words, or to fascinate by manner. [9]
- This request confers upon me a certain right to express my opinion on this weighty subject without fear and without reproach even from those who might be ready to take offence at one of the laity for meddling with pulpit questions. [6]
- He would slip upon her, you see, under cover of innocent and unimportant questions. [5]
- The publisher pricked up his ears and asked some questions. [4]
- Before we broke up for the evening the gentlemen plied me with questions concerning the state of affairs in England, and the temper of his Majesty and Parliament. [9]
- You take me up de country a piece, en sell me on a farm; dem people ain't gwine to ask no questions if I's a bargain. [5]
- Not to give up all the questions I was determined to solve, I made an attempt also to work into the Little Gentleman's chamber. [6]
- Pierre did not understand and was not interested in any of these questions and only answered them in order to get rid of these people. [2]
- There is something uncanny in the passion of a man whose life has been ordered by the inexorable rules of commerce, who has been wont to decide all questions from the standpoint of dollars and cents. [9]
- Her face was turned toward the large doorway of the main entrance, while she sometimes greeted newly introduced guests, sometimes bade farewell to departing ones, and meanwhile answered and asked questions. [10]
- And now, in turn, let me ask a few questions. [7]
- These did not trouble Maude, who often annoyed me by asking naive questions herself. [9]
- Well, at the trial a great many questions were asked by a lawyer who wanted to hurt him, and he answered them. [11]
- She found herself, trembling, answering questions now from her counsel, now from the judge; and it is to be doubted to this day whether either heard her answers. [9]
- It was the tramp of a single steed, and must be a new arrival; for there were loud voices in the tents, the dogs barked, and shouts, questions, and answers came nearer and nearer with the rider. [10]
- Comments upon other topics than those to which his department was originally devoted, especially upon social questions, were made a distinct feature. [4]
- These questions are too deep for these pages. [4]
- There were hoarse tones in her voice, usually so clear and musical, which betrayed the emotion raging in her breast as she assailed the young Macedonian noble with a flood of questions. [10]
- And when you told me that he was, I burst into tears, and I asked you many questions about him. [11]
- Wolf had just told her that his time was short; but now he willingly allowed himself to be persuaded to put down his sword and hat, and when Frau Lamperi brought in some refreshments, he recognised her, and asked her several pleasant questions. [10]
- Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. [7]
- Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. [7]
- It is easy to turn a good talker into an insufferable bore by contradicting him, and putting questions for him to stumble over,--that is, if he is not a bore already, as "good talkers" are apt to be, except now and then. [6]
- For a reply to these questions the common sense of mankind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know themselves. [2]
- Modern history replying to these questions says: you want to know what this movement means, what caused it, and what force produced these events? [2]
- The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having his own way, gave an order. [2]
- From politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry jests and gossip. [2]
- It is interesting to see how old questions are incidentally settled in the course of these new investigations. [3]
- Other questions rose to my lips, but I put them down. [9]
- Eudoxia went forward to meet her; Mary threw herself into her arms, and before her governess could ask any questions she told her that she had been chosen to accomplish a great and important action. [10]
- The countess tried to make him talk, but he went on naively looking around through his spectacles as if in search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. [2]
- They were anxious to learn whether the rumour that Didymus's garden was to be taken for the twin statues had already spread abroad, and their first questions revealed that this was the case. [10]
- How was she to know that her innocent questions tortured him cruelly; that the spirit of the Cynthia who had come to him in the tannery house had haunted him all his life, and that she herself, a new Cynthia, was still that spirit? [9]
- It adds nothing to human knowledge, it solves none of the problems of life, it touches none of the questions of social science, it is not a philosophical treatise, and it is not a dozen things that it might have been. [4]
- No one seems to have cared to ask any questions about the babies. [5]
- I set myself to framing in my mind some questions for this fiend to answer. [5]
- His close attention to every important object--his modest questions about whatever was new to him--his reverence for wise old age, and his ardent desire to learn many of the fine arts, soon brought him into respectable notice. [5]
- And, in answer to direct questions, he told her that he had seen Evelyn only a few times, and, the fact was, that Mrs. Mavick had cut him dead. [4]
- They immediately began to deliver a volley of eager questions at the friends around them: "What is this thing for? [5]
- Her heart began to beat faster, and at the same time questions crowded on her excited brain, each bringing with it fresh anxiety for those she loved, of whom, till now, she had been thinking with calm reassurance. [10]
- The event is to be especially noted because they crowded around him afterward to ask questions. [9]
- I am suffering to ask you some questions. [5]
- She had meant to ask the questions herself. [9]
- He had ceased to ask questions of anyone, since they brought him only insult instead of information. [5]
- I don't need to answer questions as a part of the business, do I? [11]
- Rut one gets tired of the strings of questions sent him, to which he is expected to return an answer, plucked, ripe or unripe, from his private tree of knowledge. [6]
- In a revolutionary time, when great questions are in issue, minor matters, which may nevertheless be very important, are apt to escape the consideration they deserve. [4]
- If you have time, I should be glad to hear further on this subject; if not, or if you think the questions frivolous, do not trouble yourself to reply.--I am, yours respectfully, C. [14]
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