INVESTIGATE in a Sentence

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265 example sentences for INVESTIGATE, such as:
1. He gave orders to investigate the matter.
2. So, when I saw your light I came here to investigate.
3. I would not have missed the investigation for anything.
4. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate.
5. They had only come to investigate the contents of the bonbon box.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of INVESTIGATE
investigate
 v.  investigate scientifically
 v.  conduct an inquiry or investigation of
Classic Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
1  So, when I saw your light I came here to investigate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Shootings and cuttings went on here with such regularity that the authorities seldom troubled to investigate and generally left the Shantytowners to settle their own dark affairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  They're going to investigate the governor, too, and they'll put him in jail if they can.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
4  I would have you investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some unexaggerated, intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may be lodged there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
5  They had only come to investigate the contents of the bonbon box.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
6  It was well he did so; for Mr. Legree, having refitted Tom's handcuffs, proceeded deliberately to investigate the contents of his pockets.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  He had suspected his agent of some underhand dealing; of meaning to bias him against the deserving; and he had determined to go himself, and thoroughly investigate the merits of the case.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
9  There were, besides, other particulars he was desirous of ascertaining, and those were of a nature he alone could investigate in a manner satisfactory to himself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
10  To the astonishment of the commission, he announced that he should ask permission to go himself to investigate the question on the spot.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 6
11  Of course it may not be either the Sereth or the Pruth, but we may possibly investigate further.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  He gave orders to investigate the matter.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
13  to himself, forgetting that he had only gone there to investigate the painter.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
14  I would not have missed the investigation for anything.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
15  Napoleon decreed that there should be a full investigation into Snowball's activities.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
Example Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1  The diagram illustrates how the aid of theories provided by monolingual studies was used to investigate reading development in bilingual settings.
2  When police investigate a gang rape, the girl's parents have released a message.
3  NASA has launched its Contour spacecraft, one of a series of missions designed to investigate comets.
4  In case the donor of kidney is a non relative, we have to investigate if there is any organ trafficking.
5  Below I will investigate the reasons why anecdotal evidence is unreliable and unacceptable evidence of scientific claims.
6  A UN weapons inspector is sent to investigate the find, teaming with a space station crew.
7  A virtual laboratory in which children aged 10-11 can investigate which changes are reversible and which are irreversible.
8  It could renew calls for Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate alleged campaign wrongdoing.
9  I am pleased to report that the various committees are now working in unison to thoroughly investigate this matter.
10  The Government set up a commission to investigate allegations of police violence.
11  Police have set up an incident room as they begin to investigate this morning's fire.
12  Antitrust authorities must investigate the effect and purpose of an agreement to determine its legality.
13  The police were baffled, and Sherlock Holmes was called in to investigate.
14  Mohamed Al Fayed has said he trusts the Metropolitan Police to investigate "with vigour" a sensational claim that the SAS was involved in the deaths of Princess Diana and his son.
15  An investigation is underway after a missile self-destructed shortly after it was launched.