Sample Sentences for
rhetorical question
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    That was obviously a rhetorical question; Mrs. Burt wasn't even looking at her.†  (source)
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    It was a rhetorical question; I wasn't really expecting an answer, but Millard gave me one anyway.†  (source)
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    I assume that's a rhetorical question.†  (source)
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    I had thought this was a rhetorical question—clearly no one in their right mind would like driving all the way out where we lived —but since an outrageous amount of time passed, and still he was staring at me like he actually expected an answer, I finally blinked in discomfort and said: "No."†  (source)
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    I didn't pay any attention; he was always speaking when his thoughts were somewhere else, asking rhetorical questions and echoing other people's words.†  (source)
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    That, by the way, is a rhetorical question.†  (source)
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    There were three-pointed arguments counted out on fingertips, rhetorical questions, emotional summations, and back-row catcalls punctuated by the banging of the gavel—as the ambient temperature of the balcony rose to 96°.†  (source)
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    I'm not sure if this is a rhetorical question, so I force my own voice into a jokey drawl.†  (source)
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    His thunderous predictions of immediate war and his rhetorical questions as to whether the South would stand for further insults from the Yankees only produced faintly bored, "Yes, Papas" and "No, Pas."†  (source)
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    I look at Drew as if this is a rhetorical question.†  (source)
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    For Shiva, rhetorical questions were a trap.†  (source)
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    But poor Miss Warren, she answered my rhetorical question.†  (source)
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    Let there be no rhetorical questions between us.†  (source)
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