Sample Sentences for
inquest
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  • After all, people don't like a Coroner's Inquest, even if the Coroner did acquit me of all blame!  (source)
  • The young Greek, Michaelis, who ran the coffee joint beside the ashheaps was the principal witness at the inquest.  (source)
    inquest = investigation of a death
  • If we do not act properly and wisely, there may be an inquest, and that paper would have to be produced.  (source)
    inquest = formal investigation into a death
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  • All you have to concentrate on is your statement at the inquest.  (source)
    inquest = formal investigation
  • Inquests of stunning objectivity were held and Annie learned for the first time how facts could be so subtly rearranged to render different truths.†  (source)
  • An inquest yesterday recorded an open verdict on a man who died after falling from the balcony of his sixth-floor flat.  (source)
    inquest = formal investigation into a death
  • My mother wanted to make an officer of me; my father, a sub-deacon; my aunt, a councillor of inquests; my grandmother, prothonotary to the king; my great aunt, a treasurer of the short robe,—and I have made myself an outcast.†  (source)
  • It is a NATIONAL INQUEST into the conduct of public men.  (source)
    INQUEST = formal investigation
  • However, even inquests went out of vogue at last, and ceased to torture Tom's conscience.†  (source)
  • To be absolutely certain the body was Booth's, Stanton ordered an inquest and autopsy.†  (source)
  • It seemed to Tom that his schoolmates never would get done holding inquests on dead cats, and thus keeping his trouble present to his mind.†  (source)
  • You will stay with me until the Council holds the inquest.†  (source)
  • Sid noticed that Tom never was coroner at one of these inquiries, though it had been his habit to take the lead in all new enterprises; he noticed, too, that Tom never acted as a witness—and that was strange; and Sid did not overlook the fact that Tom even showed a marked aversion to these inquests, and always avoided them when he could.†  (source)
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