Sentence examples for question pressed from inspiring English sources

For much of his life, and especially now that he has written a memoir, "The Hooligan's Return" (translated from the Romanian by Angela Jianu; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30), he has asked himself the question, pressed upon him by his conscience and his parents: why didn't he leave?

It was a question pressed home by others in the audience.

If you feel you have answered a question, press deeper, to find another puzzle you don't yet understand, or move to the next area of interest.

He informed himself deeply, asked hard questions, pressed for an exit strategy, and emphasized the need to "Afghanize" the war.

None of the lawmakers asking questions pressed the point and the details of the decision are an enduring mystery.

Many questions press on this issue: why are there repeated efforts by Congress to affirm the power of military detention of Americans?

Ask the eight-ball a question, press "advice," and the ball answers.

Finally, a robot voice: "To ask a question, press star, three".

The quest for an answer to that question presses us all back towards an oversimplified sense of identity as fundamental sameness.

But, still, the question presses.

It was clear that we didn't belong in that world and I started to seriously question press trips.