All 13 Uses of
inquire
in
Babbitt
- At the Athletic Club he led unwilling men aside to inquire, "Say, if you had to read a paper before a big convention, would you start in with the funny stories or just kind of scatter 'em all through?"†
Chpt 13
- He never inquired.†
Chpt 18 *
- He drifted out to the City Hospital to inquire about Zilla.†
Chpt 22
- She had come to inquire about renting an apartment, and he took her away from the unskilled girl accountant.†
Chpt 24
- He made Babbitt feel rich and important by his manner of inquiring, "What is your favorite tonic, sir?†
Chpt 24
- He inquired in a voice quick with sympathy: "I suppose you have a lot of fellows who try to get fresh with you."†
Chpt 24
- He was solicitous about lighting her cigarette and inquiring as to her comfort.†
Chpt 24
- When mobs raided the news-stands, at each was stationed a militiaman, a young, embarrassed citizen-soldier with eye-glasses, bookkeeper or grocery-clerk in private life, trying to look dangerous while small boys yelped, "Get onto de tin soldier!" and striking truck-drivers inquired tenderly, "Say, Joe, when I was fighting in France, was you in camp in the States or was you doing Swede exercises in the Y. M. C. A.?†
Chpt 27
- "How's it going, Captain?" inquired Vergil Gunch.†
Chpt 27
- He went in to mumble that he was "sorry, didn't mean to be grouchy," and to inquire as to her interest in movies.†
Chpt 31
- She made him feel puffy, and at his best-beloved daily jokes she looked gently inquiring.†
Chpt 32
- His resentment was night-blurred; he was solicitous in inquiring, "What's the trouble, hon?"†
Chpt 33
- Club members whose names he did not know stopped him to inquire, "How's your good lady getting on?"†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something