investigate

Definition:
1. To carefully examine the facts of a situation, an event, a crime, etc. to find out the truth about it or how it happened.
2. To try to find out information about sb's character, activities, etc.
3. To find out information and facts about a subject or problem by study or research.

Use 'investigate' in a sentence:

• 1. You have to investigate into this affair.
• 2. When they return they do a "waggle dance" for their spot, and other scouts will then fly off and investigate it.
• 3. They describe, for example, the Security Council's power to investigate and mediate disputes.
• 4. Police are still investigating how the accident happened.
• 5. We should not jump to conclusions. Let's investigate first.
• 6. Scouts fly off to investigate multiple sites.
• 7. Journalists were given the freedom to visit, investigate, and report without constraint.
• 8. The crime is presently being investigated by the police.
• 9. "We will do the right thing and do what we have to do to investigate crimes wherever they exist," claimed the police officer in chief.
• 10. The article offers some references to establishing investigate procedure.
• 11. I need to investigate their suggestions.
• 12. The FBI has been called in to investigate.
• 13. The Competition Commission is now to investigate whether the British Airports Authority needs to sell off some of its assets.
• 14. These are some of the questions that you investigate when you study English.
• 15. I mean something you'd like to investigate.
• 16. Now we need to begin to investigate the reasons why you think it's the right thing to do.
• 17. Police are investigating the disappearance of a young woman.
• 18. The newspapers have shied away from investigating the story.
• 19. The manager asked him to hold on while he investigated.
• 20. The faculty remain doubtful that their work as educators can be measured by a "learning outcome" such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason.
• 21. Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise.
• 22. Of course, we'll investigate not just whether the reaction will occur, but how fast it occurs, which is really important.
• 23. Luckily, Perkin's scientific training and nature prompted him to investigate the substance further.
• 24. Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.
• 25. The two officers were being investigated by the director of public prosecutions.
• 26. Three, Investigate organisation together with psychology in the command;
• 27. It is only fairly recently that historians have begun to investigate the question.
• 28. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to investigate the hazard posed today by large impacts on Earth.
• 29. We have to investigate why she was not happy with her husband.
• 30. Police are investigating the disappearance from council offices of confidential files.
• 31. An objective of this particular cruise was to investigate the floor of the Mediterranean and to resolve questions about its geologic history.
• 32. This is not the first time he has been investigated by the police for fraud.
• 33. The police officer was suspended while the complaint was investigated.
• 34. She's been banned from leaving Greece while the allegations are investigated.
• 35. Police roped off the street to investigate the accident.
• 36. 25 officers were investigated following allegations of improper conduct during the murder inquiry.
• 37. The bill creates an oversight board with the authority to investigate and punish accounting firms.
• 38. The two sides agreed to set up a commission to investigate claims.
• 39. A database administrator can further investigate these transactions to isolate the problem using of the domain expert capabilities that OPM EE offers.
• 40. Mr Sharp would not comment on the nature of the issues being investigated.
• 41. Police are investigating the theft of computers from the company's offices.
• 42. The health authorities are investigating the problem.
• 43. They should adopt a more imaginative approach and investigate alternative uses for their property.
• 44. We should investigate what happened, what went wrong.
• 45. Police are investigating possible links between the murders.
• 46. The police decided to investigate further.
• 47. He felt impelled to investigate further.
• 48. Cornell University offers a course that investigates how language relates to particular cultural codes.
• 49. An independent body has been set up to investigate the affair.
• 50. The research investigates how foreign speakers gain fluency.
• 51. Police should be asked to investigate so that the guilty can be brought to book soon.
• 52. The government is determined to spare no effort in investigating this case thoroughly.
• 53. He said he hoped the Swiss authorities would investigate the case thoroughly and without prejudice.
• 54. We were asked to investigate the alleged inconsistencies in his evidence.