Sentence examples for asking from high-quality English sources.

• Are you asking for a week off?

• What we’re asking them to do is not easy.

• They were asking the Board of Education to have a plan for all schools.

• The hospital is even asking for pillowcases, blankets, mattresses and laundry detergent.

• Mijente has also launched a petition asking Amazon to drop the Palantir contract.

• He is asking us to set aside the entire framework of justification-centered epistemology.

• And we’re asking if they feel the president’s policies have improved their economic situation.

• “Instead of me asking a lot of questions, people will be asking me the questions.

Use asking in a sentence.

• Even if one does attribute a normative conclusion to Hume, one may question his argument by asking whether premise P8 is true.

• One McKesson compliance officer complained that asking for resources was like “asking for a Ferrari,” according to New York’s lawsuit.

• The general structure of Meno’s paradox is a dilemma: If you know the answer to the question you are asking, then nothing can be learned by asking.

• This weekend I actually took the train and had to keep asking and asking and asking somebody who worked at the train station to remove their mask.

• Asking questions about what their favourite bits were and why helps them think about the story, and asking them to suggest different story endings helps them to think creatively.

• And I say that from an operational perspective, whether it's asking questions to corporate or asking questions to your boss or your team members to better understand your sector or stocks or maybe just the market in general.

• "And I say that from an operational perspective, whether it's asking questions to corporate or asking questions to your boss or your team members to better understand your sector or stocks or maybe just the market in general.

• According to the poll, however, 56 per cent of those asking for cash were not entirely honest with their parents about the money they were asking for, with 41 per cent admitting to asking for more than they really needed.

asking sentence examples

• But brokers are reporting an increasing gap between asking rents and signed starting rents, with some lease deals showing starting rents of $5 to $8 per square foot below asking rents — huge discounts as rents in Greater Houston average $29.75.

• And home offers are also coming in at record numbers above asking price — last week, Redfin reported that about one in three homes sold for more than the asking price in February, which has concerned experts like Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather.

• "But equally, we're asking businesses, we're asking citizens to put off some of the activities that they would normally undertake just after Christmas until, hopefully, later in January or perhaps a little later after that depending on the three-week review," he told BBC News.

• Healthcare professionals usually suspect reproductive control when they see certain patterns of behaviour in the patient, such as not using contraception (despite not wanting to become pregnant), repeatedly asking for emergency contraception, constantly asking for pregnancy testing or sexually transmitted infection testing or asking for more than one abortion.