Sentence examples for queried me from inspiring English sources

The female agent couldn't have been nicer as she queried me about the type of bra I was wearing, but I felt totally humiliated as I had to pull out the waistband of my pants to show her it was only a snap, not a bomb.

That was made clear to me when during a break in last year's conference several well known authors queried me about self-publishing, with obvious interest in testing the waters.

Because I've lived with the reality of being a Smolenyak by birth and by marriage (yes, that's how I wound up with the double moniker) for almost a decade now, I've become a bit blasé about it, but I was reminded again this week when a journalist queried me about it in an interview on an entirely unrelated topic.

Sure, the April Fools queries annoyed me, but they didn't really matter.

Here, while on sabbatical leave from my academic position, I jot down a segment of a conversation in my head, as the academic in me queries the cook in me, from the ivory tower looking into the kitchen.

"Weren't you bored?" a friend who knows me well queried.

"Um, excuse me, Mom?" Sydney queried from the table.

The message above is an example of the most common (for me), queries tied to an author's area of expertise.

So you can give it queries like: "Give me all the tweets that mention TechCrunch from people who do not follow @techcrunch" or "All females in the UK who mention fashion".

That means you can search for titles using more natural language queries, like "Show me movies with [a favorite actor's name]," e.g. the Apple TV can return results from the iTunes App Store and Apple Music Library, in addition to online services like Netflix, Hulu or HBO.

Queried about the coinage of this variant, Ehrlichman wrote me from jail a few years later: "I coined the phrase.