interrogate
verb (used with object)
to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
was interrogating
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past progressiveof interrogate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The quarterback came to mind while I was interrogating my obsession with Taylor and Travis because he was a jock who gave me the time of day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
Gordon looked a lot more pleased with himself than the stony-faced man who was interrogating him: Democratic counsel Daniel Goldman, who built his prosecutorial career sending mobsters and conmen to jail.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2019
He bonded with the people that he was interrogating.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
The first came when he was interrogating Dolores, now it’s in his memory of sitting with his dying son Charlie.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2016
The whole time Father was interrogating us on the porch, in my mind’s eye I was seeing her slumped over in the kitchen house, banging in mortal frustration against that locomotive engine of a stove.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
