How to Use inquisition in a Sentence

inquisition

noun
  • His political enemies were conducting an inquisition into the details of his personal life.
  • What are all the rhymes that could possibly have to do with a crime or inquisition?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 June 2024
  • An inquisition of potbellied priests stood at the side of the road.
    — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • But in the past month, thanks to a wave of inquisitions, five lawmakers have now been scooped up in its net.
    — Rob Taylor, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • By the end of the inquisition, 36 people were sentenced to die and were burnt at the stake.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Here are some sure-fire strategies to survive even the most intense inquisition.
    — Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
  • From this toxic soil, Robert Mueller’s inquisition did bloom.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Through such presumptions of guilt, our new public inquisition looks to right genuine past wrongs.
    — James Panero, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Any offseason inquisition into what has gone wrong on this offense, what has been done wrong and what needs changed must start here.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The inquisition takes a turn when Chris Harrison brings up the issue of faith.
    — Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
  • That doesn't mean Iyer or her colleagues stand on a sidewalk and conduct inquisitions.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 30 May 2017
  • Lyman also has a list of words for Pictionary (ghost, lung, inquisition) on her website.
    — Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • There are no signs that the Republicans learned a thing from their 3½ -hour inquisition.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • Our right to travel is sacred, even if airport security and border control may feel a bit like an inquisition.
    — James Harbeck, The Week, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Already, SpaceX is facing an inquisition in the court of public opinion.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • Frank’s inquisition forces him to justify his reasons for creating a character for children with so much, well, kinky stuff.
    — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
  • On Thursday, one of his deputies faced a decidedly sharper inquisition from a panel in Britain.
    — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Frank’s inquisition forces Marston to justify his reasons for creating a character for children with so much, well, kinky stuff.
    — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The saxophone sounds tangled in lament and inquisition before skronking what sounds like an emergency signal.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 11 June 2026
  • These counselors are ranked quarterly on their performance, and former employees say that losing customers — and with them, those fees — can set off an inquisition.
    — Sabrina Willmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Tuttle’s fearless inquisition won’t insult your intelligence, ask your mercy or hogtie your feelings.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • Moore will eventually ruin the cast’s fun and make the episode by asking its title question, launching a poolside inquisition into the torrid events of the night.
    — Anna Peele, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The Senate’s Libra hearing fell on the same day as two other inquisitions of the tech industry in Congress.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • And, of course, in the Inquisition that is congressional testimony, there is no effective way to answer such a question.
    — Lawrence Lessig, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2004
  • Once June arrives at the hospital, she’s given the inquisition by a woman who refuses to call June by her real last name, in favor of her married name.
    — Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In any event, Levinson still believes that this inquisition undermined the larger point being made about institutional abuse.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2026
  • After McCarthy's inquisition was shut down, Cohn began a new life as a political and legal fixer.
    — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 10 May 2017
  • Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Most are evasive, a few are obsequious, many are defiant, a few are enraged, and all appear to feel their lives slipping away under the seemingly boundless force of judicial inquisition.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2026
  • When the inquisition began in Spain in 1478, any Jew that did not want to be tortured or murdered had only to convert to Catholicism.
    — Haruka Sakaguchi, National Geographic, 14 Oct. 2019

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