Word Finder - asking

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To request (information, or an answer to a question).

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I asked her age.

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To put forward (a question) to be answered.

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to ask a question

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To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

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I'm going to ask this lady for directions.

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To request or petition; usually with for.

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to ask for a second helping at dinner

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To request permission to do something.

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Did you ask to use the car?

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To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.

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What price are you asking for the house?

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To invite.

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Don't ask them to the wedding.

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To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.

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To take (a person's situation) as an example.

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The act or process of posing a question or making a request.

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His asking was greeted with silence.

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A request, or petition.

I'm asking because I have no choice.

I'm asking you to show a little consideration.

I've been unfair asking everyone to take it on faith.

But I fear that he was not the wiser for all I told him, for every time I attempted to answer his questions he interrupted me by asking, "What do you do here?"

Jule's asking if you're okay.

Mrs. Hutton had already written to mother, asking her to telegraph if she was willing for me to have other advisers besides herself and Teacher.

They watched her with matching troubled expressions, asking the same questions and getting the same answer.

He knew without asking she'd left him dinner again.

Cynthia apologized for asking so many questions, but Westlake waved her off.

A nurse was unhitching things from my body and asking if I could sit up.

There was only one way to find out... well, maybe two, but asking Sarah or Giddon was probably wasted effort.

Yes and I can go back to asking questions I haven't been able to ask and I have sources to get answers.

She kept asking for Annie.

The only way he could have known was by asking Mrs. Hertz.

I'm just asking questions.

He used the age-old method of asking questions that needed answers until she swung into something akin to conversation.

A chorus of voices yelled down, asking if there were survivors.

Why did she have to go and tell Cleary we were hot on his trail asking about him?

Someone else was asking about her favorite tenant, Mr. Cleary.

Mrs. Glass told him he wasn't the first person asking about her Bascomb Place tenant and the fellow wanted to know all about us.

Who will you be asking for?

You were asking about Jeff and all.

She paused before asking, "He isn't alive or something, is he?"

When the ad was pulled from the paper, the seller told the clerk he had just had a cash sale for his asking price.

Jenny didn't look as if she believed their story but Dean was a detective so she simply took their statements and refrained from asking embarrassing questions.

And don't bother asking how I'm going to pick out a guy I've never seen from 2,000 bicyclists.

Maybe he signed up under a second name when he found out someone had been asking about him in Scranton.

Tell you what, you show me where this guy's gear is and maybe I'll leave a note for the fella asking him to ask Corbin when he sees him.

A part of him kept asking why he was doing this—not the bik­ing but chasing after a ghost wearing number 888 who was proba­bly hundreds of miles away.

No one would write a love note to someone asking them if they wanted coffee.

He was asking for a second chance, but could they ever reclaim the relationship they had once enjoyed?

But Alex was asking for trouble.

I feel terrible asking you this, but it keeps nagging at me.

He'd resisted asking about Jenn, but she was almost always on his mind.

The exchange a week ago was the first time she met the nightmarish Original Vamp, when he'd offered to help Jule in exchange for asking her a question.

He'd planned on asking her about it this morning, before the summons took her and Jonny from the mountain fortress.

Why are you asking this?

Still, she'd texted once, soon after Dusty disappeared, asking her Watcher where her mate was.

Maybe there is no harm in asking it to heal me as it does everyone else.

After all, how can asking for the same treatment it gives all others be bad?

She had made a list of questions, but after asking half of them, she wound up setting them aside and letting instinct guide her.

Was he humiliated because she had made the decision without asking him – and why was he home at this time of the day?

They too were asking for Alex.

Don't you think it's a little late to come to my rescue now – or is there some other reason you're asking?

Even when she was angry with him and numb with shock, she didn't consider asking for a divorce.

He was sworn to secrecy, but he was still asking for her input in the only way he could.

Denton has been asking where you are.

Well, a nice clean cut young man was asking questions about you at the store yesterday.

What kind of questions was he asking?

Call me old fashioned, but I like to do the asking.