Use "asking" in a sentence
asking example sentences
asking
1. “I was asking our guest, Kevin
2. I’m asking for an opportunity to work for you because I am passionate about what you do
3. So, get used to asking that question of yourself
4. Locate horse or cattle farms and, after asking if they spray their animals or the manure, use the manure
5. Instead of asking, “How old are you?” we should ask, “How many years have you lived?”
6. “Death isn’t something you should go around asking about, you know
7. On the second day, people started asking who he was
8. ’ I said, making a statement rather than asking a question
9. ‘Yes, it seems he had a phone call a few weeks ago asking about ammunition for a gun of that ilk
10. ‘I wouldn’t dream of asking you to pay rent
11. He had been asking me this for years, wishing it, willing it
12. He looked guilty and he wasn't asking any questions
13. Now where are those photos Emma was asking me about the other week?
14. First it is the Inspector asking how Liz is – he gets my vote for consideration, telling me how courageous she has been
15. She was getting the outside scenery set for Morg's resurrection, without really needing Ava's help or even asking her permission for that matter
16. "Ava, I'm the one that should be asking you this
17. "Why would you be asking Ava?"
18. ’ Jeremy said, making a statement rather than asking a question
19. Fred, of course, has never admitted anything and merely looks enigmatic, so I am told … not that I’d dream of asking him straight out
20. But I encourage him, asking questions and occasionally giving my opinion, and he seems to appreciate my interest
21. ‘Not only that, but I was chatting to Colin and Dave the other day while I was making the tea at the rehearsal, and they were asking me if you’d done much in the drama line as you are so professional in the way you are attacking the rehearsals
22. We had quite a row about it – me pushing aside all his queries about life here and asking what he’d seen in Italy …
23. I discarded the wilder fancies, settling instead on asking for the small and the mundane, settling on things that might make me just a little more human
24. Modern cults appear to be different in many ways, but actually they are all the same: they all trumpet forth the “breaking of the Ego” with a view to creating obedient, passive citizens who are always ready to carry out any order without thinking or asking questions
25. It's about three months since I first noticed a radical change in Persephone's behaviour: She is always shouting and laughing at top voice, she is trying to be clever and expert in all subjects, she is constantly asking for favours: “Type these poems for me” … “Tell your mother to sew this skirt of mine” … “Will you paint this picture for me?” … “Go to that public service and ask this or that” and so on
26. But you should know I will do so just because a friend is asking me to, there is no other reason!”
27. I paused for a moment before asking, “You said it was over
28. When we first woke up we were receiving a message from the Kassikan welcoming us and asking us what help we could use in completing our journey
29. If you are asking a million clumsily
30. One day, they stopped asking questions
31. Yet he comes to Jesus asking that Jesus would raise his daughter
32. "I know what you're really asking," Alan said, "And the answer is no, he would not be allowed to live outside the money economy, no one is allowed to do that in most nations, and certainly not where they still have outdoor motorcars
33. are asking for in a way that is most DeLightFULL and
34. You can share the major successes, you can include them in major changes that are going to come in the near future and you can even interact by asking your followers and customers for suggestions as to how you can improve your business and the quality of service you offer to them
35. By Monday morning, Iain had worked out what he was going to say to his boss – that James had been offered a revolutionary treatment for his migraines somewhere abroad that meant Iain had to resign from his job, asking for compassionate leave to follow James to where he was to receive this ‘special’ treatment
36. Through every single bloody day of your exploitation, we Barcs worked quietly, asking for recognition as citizens, struggling on in hope
37. The 'address modifier' was really a 'property descriptor modifier' of the current context that the content would be asking about
38. I have also seen enquiries from France and Italy asking for information about the courses offered here at the Guild Hall so it seems that the concept of a trained cadre of performing musicians, singers and actors is taking off worldwide
39. He motioned with the coffee pot asking if she wanted some, she shook her head no
40. SAMANTHA: Yes mother, I'm thinking about asking him to marry me
41. SAMANTHA: When you were asking me all those questions
42. the fear of asking and its answer grows,
43. Women are always asking him out! That's my impression of his popularity
44. Berndt, totally in control and confident, giving the words of passing … so familiar to me I can almost say them with him … a little voice in my head asking repeatedly why should that be so?
45. Meanwhile Yarin was asking another kegman if he had anything he called yaag in there
46. asking this one thing,
47. ‘Just the usual request for a progress report and asking when you want the kaht sent
48. Up above, in their cave Kate was asking, “What do you think Daniel?”
49. And I am not asking you at this stage to become a vegetarian but merely making various practical suggestions as to how it can be done in the event of your gradually turning against the eating of flesh foods for the reasons I have already outlined
50. Before he could elaborate someone again butted in, cutting communication by asking if there was a problem to save their own asses