Example Sentences

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He looked me in the eye for long enough that I started to wonder whether his question had been nonrhetorical.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

They deserve the creditif I live in three dimensions,in nonlyrical and nonrhetorical spacewith a genuine, shifting horizon.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

I’m readying myself to ask her a composed, nonrhetorical question—Do you like Jeremy too?—when the weirdest thing happens.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali