All 4 Uses of
query
in
Main Street
- Thus she triumphed through the class, which was a typical Blodgett contest between a dreary teacher and unwilling children of twenty, won by the teacher because his opponents had to answer his questions, while their treacherous queries he could counter by demanding, "Have you looked that up in the library?†
Chpt 1
- When she was giving out books the principal query was, "Can you tell me of a good, light, exciting love story to read?†
Chpt 1
- Before he could get out a query she stated: "Yesterday, in front of a saloon, I heard a German farm-wife beg her husband for a quarter, to get a toy for the baby—and he refused.†
Chpt 6
- In his queries, "Changing the whole room?"†
Chpt 24 *
Definition:
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(query) an instance of questioning -- especially of requesting information from a computer