PROBING in a Sentence

Learn PROBING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
37 example sentences for PROBING, such as:
1. He didn't like the media probing into his past.
2. The police were probing into her personal life.
3. It is hard in you to probe me with that remark.
4. The interviewer probed deep into her private life.
5. The evil of our crime is not for the human mind to probe.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PROBING
probing
 n.  an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
 v.  examine physically with or as if with a probe
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  In short, one needs, before doing this, to carry out a prolonged probing with the aid of an insight sharpened in the acute school of research.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
2  However, instead of probing deeper into the subject of Chichikov's ailments, Murazov turned to Khlobuev.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
4  No one looked at her, no one seemed aware of her presence; she was probing the very depths of insignificance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
5  Mrs. Fisher continued to probe her embarrassment with an unflinching eye.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
6  Then, gradually, his troubled vision cleared, old hints and rumours came back to him, and out of the very insinuations he had feared to probe, he constructed an explanation of the mystery.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
7  He had time in which to wonder about himself and to attempt to probe his sensations.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  However, after a while I came away; my friend is just a little too sane at present to make it safe to probe him too deep with questions.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Lord Godalming smiled, and the man lifted a good-sized bunch of keys; selecting one of them, he began to probe the lock, as if feeling his way with it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
11  It is hard in you to probe me with that remark.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
12  Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
13  The evil of our crime is not for the human mind to probe.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
14  He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
15  The reddleman and the two others then entered the water together from below as before, and with their united force probed the pool forwards to where it sloped down to its central depth.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  When the development bubble burst, federal regulators started probing the balance sheets of the biggest banks.
2  The journalist was probing into several financial scandals.
3  He didn't like the media probing into his past.
4  The police were probing into her personal life.
5  There's something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it.
6  Finding an effective drug could take up to ten years, but the technology could prove useful in probing other drug resistant diseases such as HIV.
7  Reines has also been engaged in pioneering experiments probing decay modes of the proton.
8  I wanted the chance to compare notes and probe and ask questions, and with this approach I could.
9  The police probe into organized crime led to several arrests.
10  I don't want to probe too deeply into your personal affairs.
11  A doctor used a probe to remove metal fragments from a wound.
12  The surgeon tried to probe the wound for foreign matter before suturing it.
13  Jason, as his father's protege, is destined to probe the mysteries of the hometown church.
14  The government probe began after Christ told Go Public the fast food outlet is bringing in Filipino workers while cutting local staffers' hours and turning away dozens of seemingly qualified Canadians seeking jobs.
15  The interviewer probed deep into her private life.