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  • Fingers probed.   (source)
    probed = pushed against or into to investigate
  • About a dozen years ago the Council authorized the use of psych-probes on those who were up for renewal.   (source)
    probes = investigations
  • "Because it almost looks as if he was mauled," Bobbie Carter said, probing the wound.†   (source)
    probing = investigating
  • Lacerations of the scalp (he probed Does that hurt?)   (source)
    probed = investigated (explored the wound with a medical instrument)
  • The cushions we probed with the fine long needles you have seen me employ.   (source)
    probed = investigated
  • He was lithe, and his eyes moved about the room with probing energy.†   (source)
  • His embrace might have been tight or tender, Kya couldn't tell, but while he probed about with his copulatory organ to fertilize her eggs, the female turned back her long, elegant neck and bit off his head.†   (source)
  • My tongue probes the ragged flesh and I taste blood.†   (source)
  • After months of sitting in waiting rooms reading magazines like Good Housekeeping and Reader's Digest, after endless paper gowns and cold, sterile exam rooms lit by fluorescent lights, the repeated humiliation of discussing every detail of our sex life with a total stranger, the injections and probes and specimen collections, we went back to Dr. Rosen and his trains.†   (source)
  • Chris won a bunch of points right out of the gate, but the guy was methodically testing him, probing for his weakness.†   (source)
  • "I was experimenting on chemical fertilizers," Theo replied, wincing as the doctor probed his shoulder for a glass shard.†   (source)
  • It had been hidden layers deep, but he had probed her until he found her trust.†   (source)
  • I stood in the ensuite bathroom, listening to the clatter of the water as it fell against the porcelain of the tub and probing at my face in the mirror.†   (source)
  • Edgar had been excited to be around other children that fall, but he wouldn't tell her much about school unless she probed him.†   (source)
  • Puzzled, I probed further.†   (source)
  • Since then she had been working in the Probe' kindergarten in the Rotherbaum district, taking little Margarethe with her.†   (source)
  • Though his words are accusatory, it sounds like he is probing me for information—like he actually wants my answer.†   (source)
  • I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at sloths in repose, I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings whose intense imaginative lives were beyond the reach of my scientific probing.†   (source)
  • She probed a little more.†   (source)
  • Sophie took a deep breath and probed further.†   (source)
  • Thomas knew that the Griever's probes and weapons had come out, searching for a feast.†   (source)
  • Her hands move ceaselessly, gathering, probing, testing.†   (source)
  • You need someone to probe you in that direction.†   (source)
  • Lightning flashed closer, stabbing down with long, probing fingers.†   (source)
  • Harry wondered, anxiously probing his own feelings.†   (source)
  • And now, on top of these insoluble things, her mother had only hours before probed into the pit of her soul and discovered her deep uncertainty.†   (source)
  • Now Dan looked up, and probed into her eyes.†   (source)
  • I smiled the way you do when you want someone to stop probing a subject, but you don't want him to know that.†   (source)
  • You had to relinquish the trappings of humanity-your shoes, your suit and tie-and bend over to be strip-searched, probed with a rubber glove by one of the guards.†   (source)
  • Prakash brought home ruined toasters, alarm clocks, calculators, electric fans, and I learned to probe and heal.†   (source)
  • His eyes met hers, probing, intent.†   (source)
  • According to some probing on Facebook, you had someone named Daniel Wesley over on Friday night and that resulted in a pregnancy scare.†   (source)
  • Jon crept up warily, probing any suspicious darkness with the point of his sword.†   (source)
  • One of them had something stuck in his teeth; he probed with his tongue and distorted his own face.†   (source)
  • Impossible to resist probing with a forefinger.†   (source)
  • Little Lenin remained behind to have his nostril probed by Dr. Verghese Verghese's cold steel implements, and his mother probed by other, softer ones.†   (source)
  • These things might be atmospheric probes or devices used to measure something they can't calibrate from space.†   (source)
  • "You're sure you don't mind?" probed Marvin.†   (source)
  • Gradually he realized that they were gentle hands, probing and rubbing at one tender spot after another.†   (source)
  • And then he shut up, for he remembered last week and the two white stones staring up at the ceiling and the pumpsnake with the probing eye and the two soap-faced men with, the cigarettes moving in their mouths when they talked.†   (source)
  • "What's it say?" she probed.†   (source)
  • The seismology section had a million probes down here, with a 99.8 success rate at predicting the magma flares.†   (source)
  • Her voice, probing yet gentle, pulled me away from my thoughts.†   (source)
  • Probe around in your memory, get a general picture of that morning, you know?†   (source)
  • She flailed her arms and legs until Dussel finally let go of his probe and...it remained stuck in Mrs. van D.'s tooth.†   (source)
  • We've all heard horror stories: pregnant women stripped down and probed in front of everybody, people thrown in jail for two or three years just for looking at a policeman the wrong way, or for trying to prevent a regulator from entering a certain room.†   (source)
  • And I had a kind of vision of Chrissie and Rodney, back at the Cottages, in the months leading up to this moment, probing and prodding this subject between them.†   (source)
  • Leaning forward, heads down, they used the butts of their weapons as probes, wading across the field to the river and then turning and wading back again.†   (source)
  • Why probe old wounds?†   (source)
  • Yuk Yuk probed around while I stood there, wishing the night would end, hoping nobody would be there.†   (source)
  • By gingerly probing around the soggy gash he succeeded in picking out the biggest pieces of debris, until it hurt too much to continue.†   (source)
  • I probed with my tongue and found that two teeth on the right side were gone.†   (source)
  • Beloved went on probing her mouth with her finger.†   (source)
  • Each of the labyrinthine worlds-including Hyperion-has been probed and researched.†   (source)
  • I probed every flap and crevice and came up empty.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it was El Jefe's probing eyes, sometimes it was the Virgin's pretty face I couldn't stand to look at.†   (source)
  • But instead he continued to gaze with probing intensity into my eyes.†   (source)
  • In fact, her last conversation before entering the cave is with Aziz regarding his own married life, and her questions are probing and even inappropriate.†   (source)
  • One night, while visiting classmate Daniel Spurlock in his Upper East Side apartment, Nathaniel began asking Spurlock and his fianc—e probing questions about their devout Christianity.†   (source)
  • I wanted to probe deeper, get him talking again.†   (source)
  • I felt the length of the ribbon, carefully probing it with my fingers.†   (source)
  • Above us hammer blows and splintering wood showed where a squad of trained searchers was probing for the secret room.†   (source)
  • A few probed Delta's perimeter.†   (source)
  • The butterfly poked its tiny proboscis down into her hair, probing for nurture, then flew away unsatisfied.†   (source)
  • He had probed at the boy's father and he just didn't know.†   (source)
  • It became obvious that I was being probed.†   (source)
  • And finally came rockets and space probes.†   (source)
  • The same is likely true of at least one other study, called "The Use of Deep Temporal Leads in the Study of Psychomotor Epilepsy," which involved inserting metal probes into patients' brains.†   (source)
  • Gradually I realized that Claudia knelt on his chest, that she was probing the mass of hair and bone that had been his head.†   (source)
  • Sean, for his part, had long since given up interest in probing into Michael's past, or anything else.†   (source)
  • They stopped there, probing.†   (source)
  • And Lagos is somewhere nearby, right now, videotaping the guy, probing the contents of his pockets with radar, recording his pulse and respiration.†   (source)
  • He was keenly aware of the girl's breathing, the color of her skin, the rhythm of her heart, so that he could signal to his brother to increase the ether every time she moaned, praying that no complications would arise as he probed deeply into her most secret parts, never for a moment ceasing to curse his brother in his thoughts.†   (source)
  • Luma probed, and Jeremiah explained that at a certain time each month, food stamps ran out.†   (source)
  • Having to probe for the foramen ovate wasted precious surgery time and didn't help the patient either.†   (source)
  • As we talked, in fact, there were several key moments when he seemed to probe me for information, to find out what I knew, so he could add it to his own formidable database.†   (source)
  • They used the Nelaton probe to find the bullet for possible removal, as if that would have helped Lincoln.†   (source)
  • "I think it's what you call advance probes for a business deal," she said.†   (source)
  • His plump hand shut on my left foot, then inched up my ankle, closing and probing, as if feeling for a concealed weapon.†   (source)
  • You don't have to be an astrophysicist to know Brittain's speaking as if he has a turd in his back pocketis going as far up Lemry's feminist nose as is possible without the use of an exploratory probe.†   (source)
  • While Coach probed for Vee's pulse, she made swooning motions and fanned herself.†   (source)
  • His hand roams up and down and I feel a jolt of shock as he probes the place between my legs, pushes at it with his fingers.†   (source)
  • It's probing, the fingertips starting to tap out a Morse code of urgency.†   (source)
  • He probed the depths of his mattress—the bread was there.†   (source)
  • I'd made several attempts to learn German, serious probes into origins, structures, roots.†   (source)
  • I was already six weeks p. g. He probed, I know it's a tough decision' Tough.†   (source)
  • The Universal TA-XT2 Texture Analyzer, produced by the Texture Technologies Corporation, performs calculations based on data derived from twenty-five separate probes.†   (source)
  • By the time they'd rushed Jeff to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital, he was having trouble breathing and almost passed out while the doctor probed the wound.†   (source)
  • When elephants walk through the cave at night, they navigate by their sense of touch, probing the floor ahead of them with the tips of their trunks.†   (source)
  • As we probed the numbers, however, we saw that they were flimsier than they at first appeared.†   (source)
  • How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency.†   (source)
  • The visitor, K.B.I. Agent Harold Nye, busied himself scribbling in a shorthand notebook-a notebook already well filled with the results of a long day spent probing the accusations of Floyd Wells.†   (source)
  • His green eyes, so deep and probing, were watching her intently.†   (source)
  • Therefore we need only probe your knowledge and speed and stamina.†   (source)
  • He glared at Hattie, then turned to me, his look probing.†   (source)
  • LaTisha probes.†   (source)
  • A long forked tongue shot from its upper mouth, probing for Isabelle's face.†   (source)
  • Then, after heating the needle and letting it cool, he carefully probed the swelling at the base of Jake's thumb.†   (source)
  • Of late the old man's bodily health had mended suddenly, almost marvellously; but he remained vacant, childish in mind, and so far the authorities had retained him, hoping to probe in some way to the obscure, moving cause of his malady.†   (source)
  • Help yourself and your friends probe into the secrets of the subconscious.†   (source)
  • It started off looking like a simple question and here it's got us really probing into the intellectual heritage of our civilization.†   (source)
  • Knowlton and his Rangers were to probe for the enemy along the wooded ridges to the south, which rose beyond a narrow, intervening valley known as the Hollow Way.†   (source)
  • Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.†   (source)
  • As evening became definite the street lamps flashed on and the lights of moving cars squared my world in a piercing probing.†   (source)
  • Chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes—gloved hands and machines routinely reaching into bodies and making diagnoses and corrections, so much of human frailty on the one hand and boldness on the other.†   (source)
  • Yossarian turned slowly to gaze at Milo with probing distrust.†   (source)
  • They've punched and probed and X-rayed and shot me.†   (source)
  • In the evening, when Moon Orchid seemed quieter, her sister probed into the cause of this trouble.†   (source)
  • The wing knocked the ball down and began to pass it around, probing for a seam in the defense.†   (source)
  • It took many probing conversations to get her to let down her guard, even with me.†   (source)
  • "How come they get them big crackers?" a neighbor from B Dorm asked me, probing the mysteries of faith."†   (source)
  • Jenks probed.†   (source)
  • Zack Zeitler led off the following morning with a series of probing questions about Mr. Hubbard's last days.†   (source)
  • When Lincoln was shot, physicians inserted something called a Nelaton probe into his brain.†   (source)
  • His fingers probed the sensitive spot over my hip as his mouth moved from my collarbone to my ear.†   (source)
  • He probed my story for facts that would dovetail into the more salient charges.†   (source)
  • All this day I have felt a grudging of ague, and now it rises and my head pounds, and I do feel a most dreadful ache probing at my bones.†   (source)
  • She fought back the rage at being questioned, at being probed, at having her most private moments invaded.†   (source)
  • Monoclonal antibody research, gene probes, combinatorial chemistry, genetic engineering-we've scoured every corner of Earth for the right breakthrough.†   (source)
  • And the dangerous probing by foot began.†   (source)
  • Feeling a finger of panic probing beneath his altitude-induced stupor, Mortenson sat to take stock.†   (source)
  • You have to probe it, work around it, push on it, think about it, not because it's enjoyable but because it's on your mind and it won't get off your mind.†   (source)
  • I stood in that darkened doorway trying to probe my future if I were expelled.†   (source)
  • She became relentless in her probing, as insistent as Geoffrey Washburn had been on the Ile de Port Noir, but without the doctor's patience.†   (source)
  • The mob outside had stomached enough of the agitating pamphlets, the probing articles in the Tappan-supported abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator, and the scathing street-corner stump speeches given by the Tappans and their followers.†   (source)
  • I probed the wars of African against African, of African against white, of white against white.†   (source)
  • You have no business probing into my life, Hunter.†   (source)
  • Oh no. This was a full-on, eyes closed, starting with tight lips but eventually morphing into a mutual open-mouth probe thing that lasted for a good thirty-second lifetime.†   (source)
  • Her weird, probing questions and random statements, all delivered with total authority, had almost started Jessica believing that Dess had some kind of special power.†   (source)
  • But they're not probing.†   (source)
  • I had considered whether or not to probe this Stone myself to find its uses.†   (source)
  • In all the years I had known him, Harold had never asked such a probing question.†   (source)
  • Rearden knew that this was a wound not to be probed any further.†   (source)
  • There wasn't an organ I could probe to uncover kindness, or some tissue I could explore to find human will, or the drive to make music.†   (source)
  • Then he had walked alongside the ditch, probing the night with his Sten.†   (source)
  • The robots would have to locate the barrel, insert a probe into a halfinch pipe, and extract a five-hundred-milliliter sample, all while hovering underwater.†   (source)
  • JAN. 28—The initial findings in the probe of the Jan. 22 crash of an American Airlines Convair point to a sharp, almost vertical drop of the plane.†   (source)
  • As his thoughts probed every detail of the coming days, though, Kessell's radiant face suddenly grayed over.†   (source)
  • He wanted to speak to Barbara Christman, the IIC—Investigator in Charge—of the probe of Flight 353.†   (source)
  • "Aren't we?" he probes.†   (source)
  • His fingers stopped probing and held on one spot, six inches from the right side of the stainless steel.†   (source)
  • Now she stood over the bed and looked at him, and if he opened his eyes, he knew he would see her probing for new shame, the anticipation of what she might find swelling inside her.†   (source)
  • I could not shake the picture of Perry, her muffled screams as hands and mouths stifled and probed her, her body held and pinned, naked and helpless, an experiment, a specimen.†   (source)
  • Buford could hear the artillery coming into place on the far side, heard the spattering of rifle fire from probing patrols.†   (source)
  • Being too far away from Earth orbit is not normally the sort of thing we're used to having as a problem with space probes.†   (source)
  • She watched me silently as I laid out the instruments, a swab and probe and speculum, with the uses of which, in all frankness, I had no experience whatsover.†   (source)
  • And I know not how, as the years pass, I shall bear to remember that it was once in my power to have probed the uttermost pit of Earth and that I forbore.†   (source)
  • He knows and accepts the shameful probing curiosities of human beings.†   (source)
  • Natalie released the air pressure, removed the cuff, and tenderly probed the arm with her fingertips.†   (source)
  • Something painful and bitter lay at the root of his words, but I knew better than to probe any deeper until Homer wanted to explain what he meant.†   (source)
  • Probe the background, establish the situation.†   (source)
  • The strong fingers probed and investigated and then the vet straightened up.†   (source)
  • All the time, Fiedler probed, giving nothing.†   (source)
  • He probed Tom's chest with his fingers, listened to it, and said as he put away his stethoscope, "Young bones knit fast.†   (source)
  • Feeling obliged, as fellow aristocrats, to help Thurn and Taxis weather its troubles, they put out probes to see if the house was interested at all in being subsidized.†   (source)
  • He paused and his eyes morosely probed me for some interpretation of this evil masque.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND is still probing for a weakness in Goliath's armor†   (source)
  • For Europe it was one little probe.†   (source)
  • He decided to probe Edgar's weakness.†   (source)
  • Now, close to the billabong, he started to probe at a cluster of bulb-shaped protuberances in the sand.†   (source)
  • Streaks of light probed from room to room and dived under the chairs and tables like thieves or appraisers.†   (source)
  • She stops abruptly, catching Jamie's eyes regarding her with an uneasy, probing look.†   (source)
  • She sat frozen like a leaf in a winter puddle, watching his fingers probe his scraped face.†   (source)
  • There was a long finger of music in the General's head, probing various spots that were words, letting in a little light on the words and helping them to live.†   (source)
  • Clearly Maria was the only source of information, but she was now too excited by sensuality to be easily probed.†   (source)
  • Feld did not probe, for his wife was not particularly observant.†   (source)
  • His eyes and his mind probed for danger before it appeared.   (source)
    probed = searched (investigated)
  • The evil of our crime is not for the human mind to probe.   (source)
    probe = to investigate
  • She bent lower, probed the wound with her fingertips.†   (source)
    probed = investigated
  • Sato stepped closer, her black eyes probing.†   (source)
  • His next sentence was cautious and probing.†   (source)
  • He probed his mind and wondered about the memories he'd had lately.†   (source)
  • Two days ago Arkie Philpott had a Probity Probe stuck up his...Well, trust me, this way's easier.†   (source)
  • I expect Niles to keep probing, but he doesn't.†   (source)
  • Having stripped off my sock, my mother's fingers probe the bones in my left heel and I wince.†   (source)
  • I started off along a new line, probing south.†   (source)
  • And he continued to spy, to probe, to watch ....T: And what did you find out, finally?†   (source)
  • Rixon lifted his fingers to his eyes, probing.†   (source)
  • Under the doorsill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.†   (source)
  • He deflected Eragon's probe with a flick of his thoughts.†   (source)
  • The end of her cigarette glowed like a bright, probing eye.†   (source)
  • I was mystified, and decided to probe him a bit the next time we could talk in private.†   (source)
  • He pulled up a diagnostic probe and launched it.†   (source)
  • Josiah continued to stare at his screen, while Denise's eyes probed into Mae.†   (source)
  • Instantly, Kya's good eye probed the forest for signs of Chase or some other predator.†   (source)
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