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Example sentences for "questions"

Lexicographically close words:
questioningly; questionings; questionless; questionnaire; questionnaires; questioun; questo; questor; questors; quests
  1. If I did not know you to be as honest as our Lord the Sun, your questions would carry mischief with them.

  2. She raced up alongside and the questions were put: "That should be Dason's galley?

  3. Nice or Nicaea, in Bithynia, Asia Minor, where an ecumenical council was held in 325 for the purpose of defining the questions raised in the Arian controversy--it promulgated the Nicene Creed.

  4. Still less shall I be able to answer here the many questions which arise.

  5. Study him, turn him round and round, ask him questions at your leisure; place him before you.

  6. These are the questions to be cleared up.

  7. He also made a movement to depart, being uneasy in conversation with Trefusis, who would, he felt sure, presently ask questions or make remarks with which he could hardly deal without committing himself in some direction.

  8. Trefusis went into the library with Gertrude whilst Lady Brandon loitered in the hall to take off her gloves and ask questions of the servants.

  9. The boy being now subdued, questions were put to him from all sides.

  10. All the questions here raised call for definite answers at the present time.

  11. A "question-box" dealing with science in any and all its aspects was opened once a week, and the children's questions found in it were discussed by a special teacher.

  12. He was full of questions about scientific aspects of the things and processes he saw about him.

  13. Well, the answer to those two questions is not the same one.

  14. Such questions could not be effectively raised prior to the twentieth century, because psychologists had not previously advanced to a point of supplying a scientific method of determining intelligence in childhood.

  15. It would be of great interest to study the reactions of older persons to the insistent questions and searchings of these young children.

  16. Although these questions rise vaguely and intermittently in the minds of children in general, they do not begin to require logically coherent answers until about the mental age of twelve or thirteen years.

  17. They are full of questions of fact, not yet being distracted by the emotional and dynamic interests that come with adolescence and adulthood.

  18. The answers to these questions cannot be stated from the swivel chair or the arm chair.

  19. Some of these questions are as follows: 1.

  20. At this point questions arise which call urgently for discussion as a joint responsibility of both elementary and secondary schools.

  21. Before he could wait for replies to his questions the burly invalid clutched his chair, rose to his feet and stretching out his arms gathered up his treasure of loyalty and fondly caressed her.

  22. But I didn't ask any more questions about Hosley.

  23. There'd be no questions about old Tescheron if it warn't for his gasoline.

  24. The gowns that were to be fitted and the untrimmed hats loomed larger than the intricate questions in various states of litigation that came under her supervision.

  25. I did not want to answer questions about Jim, and I did not want to hear anything more of him.

  26. There is no limit to the persuasive questions a fool can put to himself.

  27. Here is one of the great crucial questions of philosophy, and Aristotle's leaning to the side of the Final Cause has been a dominant influence upon the minds of men throughout the whole history of learning.

  28. If I asked her some questions between the hill and Windyghoul you must not blame me, for this was my affair as well as theirs.

  29. I asked at last, ignoring all questions and speaking through my fingers.

  30. Yet in the trivial form in which these questions are raised above, they can be answered just as briefly.

  31. All of these questions resolve themselves in the last instance to this: How do general historical conditions affect production and what part does it play at all in the course of history?

  32. Franklin’s analysis of exchange value did not exert any direct influence on the general trend of science, because he discussed only special questions of political economy whenever there was a definite practical occasion for it.

  33. The answer which you gave me so fully and distinctly to the questions I proposed for your consideration was of value in turning to my view certain aspects of the case which I had not before observed.

  34. The eager light of faith in him that had quickened them while she listened for his answers to her naïve questions about the great world was blotted out completely.

  35. Chapter VIII Beulah Asks Questions A slim, wiry youth in high-heeled boots came out of the house with Brad Charlton just as the buggy stopped at the porch of the horse ranch.

  36. But do not ask questions about those who lif here.

  37. Chapter XVIII Rutherford Answers Questions Beulah Rutherford took back with her to Huerfano Park an almost intolerable resentment against the conditions of her life.

  38. He could not answer those questions offhand.

  39. Our author also gives much attention to the questions of Shakespeare's religious faith and his knowledge of the law.

  40. Able men, on opposite sides, face to face, discussed grave questions of constitutional law or federal policy.

  41. I long for authority; I long for a voice I shall not question, to whose decision I can submit all the questions that torture me.

  42. The quotations from Psalms and Prophets (verses 26, 27) offer more questions than one.

  43. Throughout these questions we read the verbs in the conjunctive.

  44. He questions and discusses everything, with himself, if not with others.

  45. Serious questions for practical casuistry may be raised, of course, from this passage.

  46. We have traversed here a tract pregnant of questions and mystery.

  47. True, it suggests many questions (what great Scripture does not do so?

  48. Then come, like a short "coda" following a full musical cadence, two brief questions and their answers, spoken almost as if again a Rabbinist were in discussion.

  49. He is present now to his consciousness, within the quiet house of Gaius; and his questions come thick and fast, following on this urgent appeal to his, alas, almost impenetrable conscience.

  50. Then they drew a long breath and let loose the flood of curious questions which had been struggling for expression for the past twenty minutes.

  51. I don't think I'd let my thoughts run too much on mystical questions if I were you, Austin," he said.

  52. He walked very thoughtfully homewards, revolving many questions in his busy brain.

  53. He might be expected to prove a safer guide in such a matter as that than in questions of high finance.

  54. His proffered hand had been neglected and his few questions went unanswered.

  55. He noticed some slight change in her disposition--a queer light in her eye and a mocking ring in the monosyllabic replies which she gave to any questions he found it necessary to put to her.

  56. Never had she imagined such terrible soul-torturing silence; at times she asked questions merely for the pleasure of hearing a human voice.

  57. If the person is convalescent or only indisposed, you address a thousand questions concerning their complaints; you sympathize with them, praise their patience, and describe to them the pleasant image of returning health.

  58. Questions are therefore necessary, but they demand infinite delicacy and tact, in order neither to fatigue nor ever wound the feelings.

  59. When the clergyman puts the questions to them, each should consult their relations by a respectful sign of the head, before answering the decisive yes.

  60. The next morning at daylight fresh cargo began to come out to us, and things went on well, and would have gone better had not people come on board pestering me with questions about our fight with the Spaniards.

  61. No questions were asked as they drew up alongside the wharves.

  62. It is time I sent in my report to the town hall; and like enough men will be down here asking questions soon after, so it were best that Master Martin were on board your craft at once.

  63. When you have read that maybe I can answer questions as to matters of which he may not have written.

  64. The councillor will not have a chance of asking me any more questions this evening, and I only hope that he will be too busy to think any more about it.

  65. Were there no religious questions between the provinces they would be as one.

  66. They said we had done right gallantly, and that no doubt I should be wanted the next day at the royal council to answer other questions touching the affair.

  67. After the servant had gone the count chatted with Ned as to the state of affairs in Holland, and asked him many questions about himself.

  68. I will tell him it belonged to a man who has been here and gone away suddenly, and ask him what he will give for it, and take it quietly away after it gets dark to his own stables, and ask no questions about it.

  69. I do not know," Ned said, "that I am bound to answer questions of any that ride by the highway, unless I know that they have right and authority to question me.

  70. So well established was his renown as a sincere friend of peace and a just arbiter in great disputes between princes and peoples that his intervention and his decisions were invited wherever obscure and dangerous questions arose.

  71. He was threatened with a public and solemn session, at which all the questions should be brought before the people, and which was fixed for the 3d of November.

  72. You are wise to ask all your questions at once," said Le Brux.

  73. A whole string of questions about the goats followed, and then, again, was she really married?

  74. When she saw Lewis come in alone, she rushed up to him with eager questions of his father.

  75. For an hour Lewis sat on the edge of a chair and listened to a stream of questions and chatter.

  76. Two half-naked children played about her knees, asking eager questions about it.

  77. To most questions she simply answered by shaking her head and holding out her credentials.

  78. It was scarcely fair of me, perhaps, to put these questions to my friend, for, after all, her natural curiosity about her strange neighbours was only dormant.

  79. But I could see that my questions had made her a little uncomfortable and that she was anxious to change the conversation.

  80. Perhaps it will be best that I should give it in simple narrative style, though, as can readily be imagined, the story related to me was not uninterrupted by a good many questions on my aide.

  81. And it was not long before the opportunity came for asking further questions about the Grim House and its occupants.

  82. The best first step is to ask questions that they should be able to answer: What causes cholera morbus or summer complaint?

  83. The introduction asks eleven questions of the teachers as follows: 1.

  84. The purpose of classifying one's information is not to show how much there is, but to answer questions quickly and to guide constructive thinking.

  85. To make the discussion of this subject as fruitful as possible, I venture to submit the following questions for your consideration.

  86. Questions such as were asked in Miss North's study will prove serviceable to any one desiring to know the probable effect of a particular school environment upon children subject to it.

  87. Having begun to wonder, they will ask questions, and will expect the board of health or the school physicians to see that the questions are answered.

  88. Numerous questions that it is practicable to answer are given in Chapter XIV.

  89. These questions are best answered by the process and results of an "adenoid party," which was given especially for the benefit of this book, every step and symptom of which were carefully studied.

  90. These questions she had meant to ask him when he was sleeping: now she could not ask them from that bowed head, nor yet from those clasped hands.

  91. And all the while rapid, eager questions flew from mouth to mouth.

  92. My very heart seemed to still its beating, for did not their questions embrace the whole riddle of mine own life.

  93. Jupiter decided the most intricate questions with a nod, and a very few words and no gestures suffice for the Englishman to make his inner mind felt most unequivocably when occasion requires.

  94. Frankly, I have assumed--perhaps prematurely--that such questions are settled.

  95. These questions tormented her night and day now.

  96. For me and Nitechka the question beyond all questions is his talent.

  97. In the present case the special questions are, who are to inherit, and is the will so drawn as to stand in law; and it was not I who made the law.

  98. His theory, that in money questions it was proper to be unaccommodating, caused him such bitter moments more than once, not to mention the harm which it had done him in life.

  99. You remember how I proved to you and Pani Emilia that love for a woman could not and should not in any case be for a man everything; that beyond it there are other questions in the world?

  100. When he reached home, he found a letter from Bukatski, who was in Italy, and a card from Marynia, full of anxiety and questions concerning the duel.

  101. In view of the man's exaltation, in view of his deep, blind faith in Lineta, and the love which he feels for her, these questions were simply terrible.

  102. Further on were questions about Stas, and heartfelt words for his life-givers, and finally a promise to return in the first days of spring.

  103. Never had he felt with such clearness that there might be questions more important than those of wealth, and simply more positive.

  104. My dear friend, I attend to money questions in my office, so begin with the other.

  105. Some idea was passing through her head evidently, for in the evening, when Marynia ran in for a moment, she put like questions to us.

  106. Then till to-morrow," said Pan Stanislav, who lacked the boldness to say that in questions of money he preferred to be treated like a Jew.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    questions relating; questions three