Below you will find example sentences with "question mark". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Question Mark in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: question
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "question mark" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a big question mark for the, a huge question mark after his, exclamation, comma and end stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with question marks and ceo mark, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with question mark
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
No question the safety of the athletes is a question mark. (11 words)
And what you have is the Labour's revival in Scotland, question mark. (13 words)
Conspiracy theories put a huge question mark on the world’s arguably leading democracy. (14 words)
And then I think when we look at it, we started the quarter kind of with a question mark as to, okay, we have forecasted it to be sort of at the rate we were at the end of the year, and that sort of played out during the quarter. (50 words)
Spanish uses an inverted question mark at the beginning of a question and the normal question mark at the end, as well as an inverted exclamation mark at the beginning of an exclamation and the normal exclamation mark at the end. (41 words)
As Dom Knight pointed out, “How good is Australia!” was a rhetorical question – posted on the PM’s Twitter with an exclamation mark, not a question mark – suggesting this wasn’t a question inviting any nuanced, complex or qualified answer. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Spanish uses an inverted question mark at the beginning of a question and the normal question mark at the end, as well as an inverted exclamation mark at the beginning of an exclamation and the normal exclamation mark at the end.
As Dom Knight pointed out, “How good is Australia!” was a rhetorical question – posted on the PM’s Twitter with an exclamation mark, not a question mark – suggesting this wasn’t a question inviting any nuanced, complex or qualified answer.
Armenian question mark In Armenian the question mark ( ՞ ) takes the form of an open circle and is placed over the last vowel of the question word.
Hebrew and Yiddish are also written right-to-left, but they use a question mark that appears on the page in the same orientation as the Roman-alphabet question mark.
It is defined in Unicode at error. main Greek question mark The Greek question mark ( Greek ερωτηματικό main, erōtīmatikó (;)) appeared around the same time as the Latin one, in the 8th century.
The question comma has a comma instead of the dot at the bottom of a question mark, while the exclamation comma has a comma in place of the point at the bottom of an exclamation mark.
The full stop is represented by a colon, and vice versa; the exclamation mark is represented by a diagonal similar to a tilde (~), while the question mark resembles the "at" symbol.
Tubiana also acknowledged that although the objective of carbon neutrality by 2050 is a given, the question of a just transition remains a question mark to convince Poland or the Czech Republic.
No question the safety of the athletes is a question mark.
Think about how when you hear someone’s voice rising in pitch, you know you’re being asked a question before they reach the question mark.
In amateur radio, the Q codes were originally used in Morse code transmissions to shorten lengthy phrases and were followed by a Morse code question mark (··— —··) if the phrase was a question.
Amihere’s outside shot is also a major question mark at this point, but there’s a path to success for her even without it — any development in that area is simply icing on the cake.
And on the eve of a new Premiership season, that’s the question mark hanging over Rangers gaffer and his players.
And then I think when we look at it, we started the quarter kind of with a question mark as to, okay, we have forecasted it to be sort of at the rate we were at the end of the year, and that sort of played out during the quarter.
And what you have is the Labour's revival in Scotland, question mark.
Aside from Samaje Perine, the Broncos running back room looks like a solid question mark at best.
Cameron Sutton will be a free agent if he is not re-signed before free agency begins and Ahkello Witherspoon is a huge question mark after his poor season plus injury that kept him out for over half of it.
Conspiracy theories put a huge question mark on the world’s arguably leading democracy.
Existing clinical trials will continue in the meantime, but the decision has left a question mark over the unit's capacity to carry out research longer term.
For United, Ten Hag has confirmed that is a "big question mark" for the game.