How to Use inquisition in a Sentence

inquisition

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  • His political enemies were conducting an inquisition into the details of his personal life.
  • 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
  • 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
  • The inquisition takes a turn when Chris Harrison brings up the issue of faith.
    — Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
  • Here are some sure-fire strategies to survive even the most intense inquisition.
    — Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • From this toxic soil, Robert Mueller’s inquisition did bloom.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Lyman also has a list of words for Pictionary (ghost, lung, inquisition) on her website.
    — Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • That doesn't mean Iyer or her colleagues stand on a sidewalk and conduct inquisitions.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 30 May 2017
  • Through such presumptions of guilt, our new public inquisition looks to right genuine past wrongs.
    — James Panero, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • On Thursday, one of his deputies faced a decidedly sharper inquisition from a panel in Britain.
    — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • A mikvah, or Jewish ritual bath, was found below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi, which in the 16th century housed the offices of the Inquisition.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Survival in New York City is a challenge at the best of times, for everybody, but this hero’s ordeals, by water and fire and social media, are sterner trials of faith than even the mad monks of the Inquisition could dream up.
    — Terrence Rafferty, New York Times, 17 July 2017
  • 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
  • The museum’s first two temporary exhibits will be about the Portuguese inquisition in Brazil, which only ended 200 years ago.
    — Caleb A. Guedes-Reed, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • A few years ago, progressives may have thralled to Elizabeth Warren’s inquisition of Yellen for supposedly having done too little to lay the groundwork for the breakup of big banks.
    — Editorial New York Daily News, Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It’s a documentary about witchcraft and the inquisition.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
  • At this second inquisition, my daughter lost her temper.
    — cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Saying that we are estranged nearly always results in some sort of lecture, judgment or inquisition.
    — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Saying that we are estranged nearly always results in some sort of lecture, judgment, or inquisition.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Unfortunately, Gizelle’s callousness isn’t limited to her enemies; even her best friend, Robyn Dixon, ends up on the wrong end of an inquisition.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
  • On a more somber note, perhaps, Morgan’s son and other bank executives later claimed that Untermyer’s inquisition led to his father’s death just a few months later in March 1913.
    — Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
  • 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

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