How to Use inquisitor in a Sentence

inquisitor

noun
  • He had to answer his inquisitors' questions or be thrown out of school.
  • A couple sits before an inquisitor grasping their tax returns.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In this context, her son is both the inquisitor and the healer, the reminder of the broken past and the hope for a more stable future.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Reagan and Kennedy didn’t engage with one another so much as swat away barbs from their hostile inquisitors.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • This other inquisitor from the Fast and Furious movies is ready to replace you.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • Don’t wait for your busybody inquisitor to react to your explanation.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Cornwell surely knew there was a fan in Morris, an enthusiast of the elusive as much as an inquisitor.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Not only do the ruthless inquisitors await, but Cervantes’ dungeon-mates have seized his possessions.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Cassidy cast a wary eye at an inquisitor who suggested that the officials have called a good series, given the amount of physical play.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
  • The firm, serious face poised above the black polo neck could be the hawklike visage of an inspirational priest, an inquisitor or cult leader.
    — Momus, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2007
  • On the bench, Blackwell can be an aggressive inquisitor during oral arguments.
    — Bill Rankin, ajc, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Only Willis and her main inquisitor, Merchant, who wore a cobalt blue dress under a white blazer, stood out in the room’s sobriety.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Its agents—inquisitors in all but name—are determined to find and kidnap an infant Lyra, who is already a subject of prophecy and import.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Dvorkin can thus be called, without much exaggeration, the Kremlin’s grand inquisitor.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Meadows was among the most assertive Republican inquisitors, the transcripts show.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Durst was getting off on trying to toy with Jarecki, who was getting off on presenting himself as a mild-mannered, erudite inquisitor.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But the Kremlin hasn’t sought out a potential inquisitor for his first interview since invading Ukraine.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Schweizer was not the only onetime Clinton inquisitor who returned to the hunt thanks to the Weinstein story.
    — David Weigel, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
  • To each inquisitor — portrayed by three agile actors — Sugar has crafted an authentic reply.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 20 Sep. 2019
  • What, one inquisitor asked, was the wavelength of the dim light, calculated in the infinitesimal unit of measurement known as angstroms?
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The initial game, Dark Heresy, focused on inquisitors rooting out enemies of the Empire.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In addition to sci-fi elements, the project tells a touching love story between the inquisitor and his AI assistant.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • An inquisitor investigates the mysterious death of a monk and alleged witchcraft in the Middle Ages.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • To postpone their execution, a group of women accused of witchcraft lure their inquisitor into witnessing the witches’ Sabbath.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Murray was one; the other was Joseph Kosuth, who was not only one of the pioneers of conceptual art but also its strictest and most demanding inquisitor.
    — Barry Schwabsky, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
  • But this time around, he's taken off his inquisitor's cap, set aside the Interrotron — Dorfman is clearly talking to the side of the lens — and settled in like a kid given a private tour of the toy store.
    — Robert Abele, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
  • But this time around, he’s taken off his inquisitor’s cap, set aside the Interrotron — Dorfman is clearly talking to the side of the lens — and settled in like a kid given a private tour of the toy store.
    — Robert Abele, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
  • Bailey was the last witness to appear before Justice Donald Alexander, and he had been prepped by his attorney to throw himself on the mercy of his inquisitor.
    — Andrew Goldman, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
  • Several portraits in medallions high on the walls of the cloisters show decapitated Dominican Friars who worked as inquisitors with just a stump for a neck and their heads held in their hands.
    — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The inquisitor, in this case, is a mysterious traveler in the year 1242 who arrives at a crowded inn north of Paris, seeking news of three children wanted by the king.
    — Soman Chainani, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016

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