Investigating
[ɪn'vɛstə,get]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Investigate
Typed by Connie
Examples
- It is the supposed murder of Colonel Barclay, of the Royal Munsters, at Aldershot, which I am investigating. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Pickwick, who had been deeply investigating the interior of the pigeon-pie, readily assented. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is the murder that we are really investigating, and I tell you that I am gathering all the threads into my hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We are investigating this unhappy business, Bannister, said his master. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Men who heard of a machine that would cut one hundred and seventy-five acres of wheat in less than eight days--as happened in one case--naturally decided that it was worth investigating. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At this time he was investigating everything with a microscope, and one day in the early part of 1880 he noticed upon a table in the laboratory an ordinary palm-leaf fan. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With an absent air, she was investigating that button on her husband's coat, when Pa came in to spend the evening. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the a?rial creations of the poets. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I tried the dining-room, and discovered Samuel with a biscuit and a glass of sherry, silently investigating the empty air. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Since the situation in which thinking occurs is a doubtful one, thinking is a process of inquiry, of looking into things, of investigating. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Well, in investigating this minor affair we must not lose sight of our main inquiry. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was among such practical, investigating folk as these that Edison was very much at home. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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