Example Sentences

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She had been quizzing a jaded young voter from the Bronx on a local contest coming up in New York.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2016

After I had been quizzing them for years about names of hundreds of trees and birds, how could I insult them by assuming they didn’t have names for different mushrooms?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"Now you're only quithing me," said Fanny, looking with affected innocence in the face of the unfortunate young gentleman she had been quizzing most unmercifully the whole day.

From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Lover, Samuel