How to Use interrogation in a Sentence

interrogation

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  • The asylum interview, which was more of an interrogation, was brutal.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Many have come back visibly injured after days of interrogation, these people said.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Only a short portion of the more than two-hour interrogation video showing the detectives going over Billingsley’s rights was played in court.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
  • And Socks has already made a mess of things by threatening Wiley over the phone, turning what could have been a friendly chat into a tense interrogation.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Cage fully unleashes in this moment that builds until Cobble kills himself by smashing his face over and over against the interrogation table.
    — EW.com, 12 July 2024
  • During a break after a first interrogation, around 2 p.m., Marshall asked someone outside the room what was happening.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2022
  • There is no evidence linking them to the crime, but prosecutors lean heavily on false confessions attained through hours of interrogation.
    — Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2022
  • Fitzgerald demanded during his first interrogation of Dahl, according to the transcripts.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Of course, the convo needs to flow, not feel like an interrogation.
    — Lindsay Geller, Women's Health, 22 June 2023
  • In the early songs, this often takes the form of a self-interrogation or murder.
    — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The goal was to persuade him to come with them for a more formal interrogation back at their office.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In custody, there are clues to help gauge the gravity of the interrogation.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Kourtney probed her sister near the end of the five-minute interrogation.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 16 Dec. 2022
  • As the marketing shows, there’s a big interrogation scene between the two of you.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2024
  • McGee pulls him into interrogation, and Yang claims to have lost his badge.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The Times was not shown any part of the interrogation complex, including the area where music was played.
    — Bilal Shbair, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • The show will also feature interrogation tapes and courtroom footage of the case and the latest updates.
    — Katie O'Brien, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The gazes of my classmates felt like interrogation lights.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • The interrogation by the Secret Service at a D.C. show.
    — Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
  • To those on the receiving end of this interrogation, the questions can feel deeply ironic.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And then, the formal interrogations were once or twice a week for several hours.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • During the interrogations of the film crew, the intelligence forces asked them to pressure me to withdraw the film from the Cannes Festival.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • The story opens in 2009 with a police interrogation, all too routine for many Uyghurs.
    — Dan Keane, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Two days later, he was taken down the hall for an interrogation.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Sanders also led a one-hour interrogation of a person identified as a witness in the case, court records show.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2022
  • After the interrogation, Johnson learned that that was a lie.
    — Colleen Halpin, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Summer 2000, that was a little hard with the interrogation scenes.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Within minutes of starting the interrogation, the motion states, Miles was told that someone had been killed.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The statement the agency gave The Sun also pointed to a legal filing that challenged the agency’s interrogation of Oros.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Uzbek police took him for interrogation and detained him for 15 days.
    — Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023

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