How to Use question mark in a Sentence

question mark

noun
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  • The team's pitching is a big question mark this season.
  • One of the biggest things that’s still a question mark is price.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The question mark for Barnes is his long-range shooting.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The biggest question mark for the Huskies will be at point guard.
    — Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Tight end is the only question mark about this offense.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The biggest question mark is center Robert Williams’ knee.
    — Omari Sankofa Ii, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022
  • While Lavin’s résumé is impressive, there is one question mark.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Housing will be a question mark as recent price rises moderate.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Season 3 ended with an enormous question mark, so surely season 4 will seek to tie up loose ends.
    — ELLE, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The big question mark is the 18% that remain undecided.
    — Eduardo Thomson, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • And there’s a big question mark regarding how many total workers will end up supporting the effort.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • But with Game 1 of the first round on Saturday, his health remains a major question mark.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Indeed, the general longevity of Creed’s biggest hits was something of a question mark for a while.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 18 July 2024
  • Whether animals, or children, or women, or men, no one deserves to live in statements that constantly end in a question mark.
    — Lana Nicole Niland, Time, 28 Mar. 2022
  • As for another big question mark hanging over the Grammy fete is the Kanye West factor.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Jordan Poole has made a dramatic improvement, starting the season as a question mark but lately looking like one of the league’s emerging stars.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
  • And that in turn leaves the impact of the Fed’s QT a question mark.
    — Liz Capo McCormick, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • In the short term, the other two spots are a question mark.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 13 May 2023
  • Click the question mark at the top right to get started.
    — PCMAG, 31 May 2024
  • But the rest of the roster will be a giant question mark.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
  • Instead of a name, there were question marks over the video clip.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • That’s assuming the strikes are over by the end of the year — which is a big question mark.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • There are more question marks on the offensive side of the ball.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But this year there is a big question mark hanging over the fall slate.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Further, the Dodgers aren’t the only team in the playoff field with question marks.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • There was the 44-day question mark of Liz Truss’s tenure.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023
  • One man, Anatoly Shevchenko, had a question mark next to his name.
    — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • Note the question mark, though: That means that the clue should not be taken at face value.
    — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Shaquille Leonard has been dealing with a back injury and is still a question mark for the game.
    — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 9 Sep. 2022
  • So, this defense has gone from being built around the line to it being a question mark.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024

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