verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
question/interrogate/interview a suspect
▪
Police confirmed that six suspects are being questioned.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
database
▪
The Library carries out literature searches on behalf of staff, by interrogating large bibliographic databases which are mounted on very large computers.
▪
This provides a very flexible and economical method of accessing and interrogating the database of some 70000 samples.
▪
An interactive system enables users to interrogate the database and to supply information, as well as drawing from it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Army officers have been accused of using unorthodox methods when interrogating enemy prisoners.
▪
During the war, he interrogated more than 150 prisoners of war.
▪
I was interrogated at length about my conversation with the two men.
▪
The police interrogated Waters for 24 hours until he confessed.