Sentence examples for queries why from inspiring English sources
Notes and queries Why do nettles sting?
Most of questions concerned comportment (could a unmarried couple live together?) or trivial queries ("Why a Horse with round Fundament emits a square Excrement?").
Along with other conundrums you might well find in the Guardian's Notes And Queries: why can't elephants dance; why does chocolate melt (and why don't jet planes); and how can hamsters survive falling out a plane without a parachute?
In one email a Job centre manager queries why only two claimants failed to meet their commitments from the 916 interviewed that month, and suggests tighter conditions must be imposed if official sanctions level expectations are to be met.
Professor Barry Smith of London University's Centre for the Study of the Senses queries why "we need neuroscience and the Japanese" to alert us to it, when tastes such as salt and sweet are clear as day.
Cynics cite the placebo effect, but Kite queries why this is viewed as a negative thing: "If you pop a pill from a doctor you like and respect, it will be far more effective than taking medication from one you mistrust.
When I queried why, he let loose.
He also queried why it was necessary to hold so much internet browsing data.
A reader's query — why are some CDs longer than others?
Criado-Perez, 29, queried why it had taken Twitter a week to respond to the concerns.
Mr Campbell then queried why the report only said Iraq had sought to secure uranium.
