Sentence examples for probing to from inspiring English sources

It took days of probing to get to the root of the problem.

"We will run DNA testing anyway, probing to see if we have anything, just to retrieve data.

Tehran is obviously probing to see whether President Obama can play hardball or whether he can be played.

Some definitions of cohabitation are dependent on probing to test the degree of commitment of the former couple in retrospect.

With Madsen's generous partnering as the ultimate troubled youth they forge a believably complex relationship, perhaps adding more complexity and probing to the show than the source material.

"I think kids were more comfortable than in person, because I didn't have to do any probing to get them to start talking," she said.

In particular, Beijing is probing to see how far Mr. Chen has moved from his longtime advocacy of formal independence for Taiwan.

But I suspect that our feelings are not dissimilar from Gilbert White's quietly probing to see what feels familiar and what feels unfamiliar.

You drove all that way to see me — took half a day to get to my house — and all the probing, to make sure Richard was away.

Vann had made up for its lack of precision by letting the terrain suggest to him where guerrillas might be located and by probing to test his hunch.

And Georg Hoffman-Ostenhof, an analyst for the weekly news magazine Profil, delves into psyche-probing to explain his worries about Mr. Haider: "I'd never say he's a Nazi, but he has the Nazi views of his father in his background, and they inform him".