Inquests [noun]
Definition of Inquests:
investigation
Sentence/Example of Inquests:
No doubt, there will be an inquest into what went so wrong that a mob was able to march up the same steps where female lawmakers formed an honor guard as the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body left the building last year.
The fortune was proving quite as large as he had expected, and not even an inquest had been held upon the dead man.
When I was about twenty I held a sort of inquest upon it and found out a number of things.
"One of the most extraordinary cases I have ever met with," the doctor told the coroner at the inquest.
Couldn't say much at inquest, or didn't; was asked if he witnessed accident; said 'No,' but some still think he did.
A woman having died suddenly at Waterford, the Coroner had, according to law, ordered an inquest.
The coroner's inquest found that she had drowned herself while in a state of mental derangement.
They held an inquest upon her next day: or, as the local phraseology of the place put it, “Sat upon the body of Elizabeth Field.”
"You'll be called as a witness at the inquest," he hazarded, and was rewarded by a look of uncertainty in her eyes.
The detective looked a bit sheepish, but stuck to his inquest.