Investigated
[in'vestiɡeitid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Investigate
Typist: Rowland
Examples
- One of Plato's associates, working under his direct ion, investigated the curves produced by cutting cones of different kinds in a certain plane. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He had investigated all the crushing-machines on the market, and tried all he could get. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This case of yours, Mr. Phelps, is certainly one of the darkest which I have ever investigated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They are facts to be investigated. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This Goebel claim was then investigated by the leading counsel for the defence, Mr. Curtis. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For months he investigated and experimented, and at length, in 1815, he constructed what he called the safety-lamp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But is it quite fair, sir, to Mr. Ablewhite to pass over the opinion of the famous London police officer who investigated this case? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The women and children are now disposed of, but the other question of the rulers must be investigated from the very beginning. Plato. The Republic.
- This mystery must be investigated, or how will its disclosure to me, benefit Oliver, whom you are anxious to serve? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- When Dalton had investigated the relative weights with which elements combine, he had found no simple arithmetical relationship betw een atomic weight and atomic weight. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This treasure must be at once deposited where it can be thoroughly investigated and properly understood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The Lewis hand fire-extinguisher was next investigated. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Another man, Halliwell, who has also investigated the development of the expression, thinks that it was derived from the description of a character in an old play, Jack, Robes on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Rowland