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Example sentences for "investigating"

Lexicographically close words:
invest; invested; investigate; investigated; investigates; investigation; investigations; investigative; investigator; investigators
  1. You had not been here with me long until you knew I was investigating these railroad thefts, and that he was suspected?

  2. I understand you were here investigating the loss of the dynamite when the explosion occurred.

  3. Investigating and tabulating," said Miss Rutherford, "for the Royal Dublin Society's Natural History Survey.

  4. My plan," said Priscilla, "is to begin at the south of the bay and work across to the north, investigating every island until we light on the one where he is.

  5. Still, by investigating the general conditions of proof, he sets every man upon his guard against the insufficiency of evidence.

  6. In investigating the events of a remote age, nearly all our direct evidence must be some sort of testimony.

  7. But perhaps the expression, 'Historical Method,' is more frequently applied to the Comparative Method, as used in investigating the history of institutions or the true sense of legends.

  8. The homology of the hydrocarbons was discovered by Gerhardt in 1844 while he was investigating the alcohols.

  9. Here we see the dawn of a new scientific spirit and the beginning of a new method of investigating knowledge.

  10. This confusion is the source of most of the erroneous estimates and notions of Mythology, which even the latest methods of investigating myths has not entirely removed.

  11. Here, therefore, Jahveism interfered, in the manner which we had occasion to describe in the chapter on the method of investigating myths (p.

  12. If Paul said He was alive after death, that was only another proof of madness, and a Roman governor had more weighty things to occupy him than investigating such obscure and absurd trifles.

  13. The doctor was investigating the murdered man's effects.

  14. The amateur detective was busy again with the seal-skin bag, investigating the make of the safety razor and the manufacturer's name on the bronze-green tie.

  15. I could feel that she was investigating the top of my head from above.

  16. He believed in arresting first and investigating afterward.

  17. I am investigating Captain Lloyd's murder, and came here to get Major Goddard's testimony.

  18. I think you will find, in investigating this subject, that every solid argument is against the extraordinary court, and that every one in its favor is specious only.

  19. This is an object I mean to pursue, as I am persuaded that the only method of investigating the filiation of the Indian nations is by that of their languages.

  20. Hence courts have been established and a definite method of proceeding instituted for the purpose of investigating and proving the crime before the sentence of death is passed.

  21. The case was brought before the magistrate; and as the simple men of the place knew no better means of investigating the crime, they called all the young women of the town into the town hall and closely examined them, one by one.

  22. He had been investigating the qualities of wire of various kinds, especially with regard to their elasticity, so as to be able to determine the limits of their use in various engineering projects.

  23. What originally set me investigating this subject now proves to be without interest for science, since the problem has been solved before.

  24. Nature-study sets the pupil to investigating for himself.

  25. Some one has said that if Great Britain had expended one dollar for investigating the diseases of potatoes where she had spent a thousand dollars for perfecting the engines of war, the terrible famine might have been averted.

  26. This Symmachus, it appears, invariably moved abroad surrounded by hundreds of his disciples, whose cold investigating hands produced upon their patients the effects to which Martial alludes.

  27. The Greek geometers made little progress with the problem of tangents, but they devised methods for investigating the problem of quadratures.

  28. A new era opens with Bacon, whose writings all preach the principle of investigating the laws of nature with the purpose of improving the conditions of human life.

  29. But he knew very clearly that if he returned to Sirius base without investigating this robot situation, he could very well be court-martialed one way or the other, either for breaking the Law of Contact or for dereliction of duty.

  30. During that time, Steffens was usually with Elb, talking now as often as he listened, and the Aliencon team roamed the planet freely, investigating what was certainly the strangest culture in history.

  31. They trudged along, laughing and talking--talking principally of the advent of Harry Pangborn and his declaration that he would do some real investigating of the mysterious happenings in Jockey Hollow.

  32. I think you can do your investigating alone.

  33. The Congress appointed a War Investigating Committee, Senator Wade at the head.

  34. The Investigating Committee has made the most thorough disclosures of the thorough incapacity of McClellan; but the McClellan men, Seward, Blair, etc.

  35. If you are Mr. John Douglas of Birlstone Manor, then whose death have we been investigating for these two days, and where in the world have you sprung from now?

  36. We are investigating the murder of Mr. John Douglas of Birlstone Manor.

  37. For the record I shall state that the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy is investigating all facets of the shooting, including the medical treatment performed on President Kennedy.

  38. May the record show that Mrs. Jean Lollis Hill is present at this moment in response to a letter request that she appear and give a deposition to the President's Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy.

  39. And yet, in consequence of the chief executive's instructions, it seems to have been left to these very same officials to determine what documents they would hand over to the Investigating Committee.

  40. Ta-li Fu and Hsia-kuan are important fur markets and we spent some time investigating the shops.

  41. The most interesting result of investigating an oft-frequented lair is concerning the animal's food.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "investigating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.