How to Use investigate in a Sentence

investigate

verb

• The manager promised to investigate when we pointed out an error on our bill.
• The police are still investigating the murder.
• He was investigated for his involvement in the incident.
• The accident was thoroughly investigated.
• Authorities are investigating both the cause of the fire and whether the blaze is to blame for the woman’s death.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2023
• And Bloomberg’s Dana Hull, who has been investigating the Twitter sitter for years, has yet to turn up a name.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 15 May 2023
• Darby is in the middle of investigating something in the cold and snow of Iceland.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
• The church is investigating, and Bickle stepped down from his post.
  — Cherie Deville, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• The task force created to investigate the killings was formed in 1988 at a time when homicides in the region were rising.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• The government is currently investigating what caused the piece to blow off from the plane.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
• In the film, the crew of the Nostromo investigates a distress call from a derelict spaceship on moon LV-426 and encounters the deadly Xenomorph.
  — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
• Runge has been investigating the six and thus Jamal over the past seven months.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
• And her case, although investigated, had gone cold—as is the stay of play for so many other trans people.
  — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 10 June 2024
• Smith said no agents were injured and an FBI review team will investigate the shooting.
  — Juan A Lozano, Chron, 23 Mar. 2023
• He was supposed to be the hero who caught bad guys and investigated evildoers.
  — Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• The death of a man found in a creek in Montgomery County will be investigated as a homicide, police said Wednesday.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Smith also is investigating Trump’s efforts to block the results of the 2020 election.
  — Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, Spencer S. Hsu, Perry Stein, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
• Kwong was placed on paid leave the following spring, as Sheppard Mullin, a law firm hired by the county, spent more than two years investigating him.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• The cause of the fire is unknown, and a fire investigator will be brought in to investigate, park officials said.
  — Jillian Sykes, CNN, 3 July 2024
• In another study, researchers investigated the genes used in the silk glands of aquatic and land spiders.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
• An officer investigating the incident reported that the weather was cloudy and the road was dry at the time.
  — Lena Miano, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
• Northbound lanes were closed for about three and a half hours as CHP officers investigated.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
• Traffic lanes in the area were closed while police investigated.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
• As the youngest and seemingly most directionless of the trio, Mabel is keen to investigate the death to have something to do and distract herself.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 8 Aug. 2023
• Crispr can be used to knock out genes to investigate their function, but its real power lies in being able to change an organism’s DNA.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• The film tells the story of a grieving mom investigating a murder mystery and the story is set in the backdrop of the issues that plague immigrant lives in London.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• Unable to take him on the back of their bikes, the gang members dismembered his body with a machete, according to a human rights group investigating the killings.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 June 2024
• That briefly cost the coach his job as U.S. Soccer investigated, then cleared, Berhalter of any wrongdoing.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• To investigate both lines of inquiry, fertility and cancer.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
• These intimate moments are juxtaposed a bit awkwardly with scenes depicting Ito as a journalist investigating her own ordeal.
  — Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024