All 50 Uses of
inquire
in
Catch-22
- They all knew he was a C.I.D. man because he kept inquiring about an officer named Irving or Washington and because after his first day there he wouldn't censor letters.†
Chpt 1
- May I inquire,' he whispered softly, 'if that is Lieutenant Dunbar?†
Chpt 1
- 'Nathaniel who?' inquired Yossarian innocently.†
Chpt 2
- Doc Daneeka inquired of Yossarian without looking up.†
Chpt 4
- Colonel Cargill decided to inquire while he had ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen on the phone.†
Chpt 4
- 'How come he doesn't know it?' inquired Yossarian.†
Chpt 5
- Major Metcalf inquired coldly.†
Chpt 8
- What did you mean,' he inquired slowly, 'when you said we couldn't punish you?†
Chpt 8
- He had stopped at the operations tent to inquire the way to the orderly-room tent and had been sent right into action because so many men had completed the thirty-five missions required then that Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren were finding it difficult to assemble the number of crews specified by Group.†
Chpt 10
- The fear flowed everywhere, into Dunbar's squadron, where Dunbar poked his head inquiringly through the entrance of the medical tent there one twilight and spoke respectfully to the blurred outline of Dr. Stubbs, who was sitting in the dense shadows inside before a bottle of whiskey and a bell jar filled with purified drinking water.†
Chpt 10
- 'That's right, you bastards, Bologna,' he kept repeating to all the bombardiers who inquired incredulously if they were really going to Bologna.†
Chpt 11
- 'You really want to go into combat?' ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen inquired.†
Chpt 12
- Colonel Korn inquired with curiosity.†
Chpt 12
- Chief White Halfoat inquired in a hushed voice.†
Chpt 12
- He left his flak suit and parachute there and crossed back past the water wagon to the intelligence tent to return his map case to Captain Black, who sat drowsing in his chair with his skinny long legs up on his desk and inquired with indifferent curiosity why Yossarian's plane had turned back.†
Chpt 14
- Luciana inquired with a blank look.†
Chpt 16
- Yossarian inquired compassionately.†
Chpt 16
- 'Why can't they hook the two jars up to each other and eliminate the middleman?' the artillery captain with whom Yossarian had stopped playing chess inquired.†
Chpt 17
- 'How do you manage to keep up on so many diseases like that?' he inquired with high professional esteem.†
Chpt 17
- 'Then why pick meningitis?' inquired a major with a suave chuckle.†
Chpt 18
- After a while he realized that he was staring at rows and rows of bushels of red plum tomatoes and grew so intrigued by the question of what bushels brimming with red plum tomatoes were doing in a group commander's office that he forgot completely about the discussion of prayer meetings until Colonel Cathcart, in a genial digression, inquired: 'Would you like to buy some, Chaplain?†
Chpt 19
- 'Is that a fact?' he inquired, his rage tamed by curiosity.†
Chpt 21
- Yossarian inquired with laughing amazement and admiration.†
Chpt 22
- 'What's artichoke?' he inquired.†
Chpt 22
- Yossarian and Orr soaked their rancid, unfriendly bodies pink in a steaming-hot tub and then went from the hotel with Milo to eat shrimp cocktails and filet mignon in a very fine restaurant with a stock ticker in the lobby that happened to be clicking out the latest quotation for Egyptian cotton when Milo inquired of the captain of waiters what kind of machine it was.†
Chpt 22
- 'Do you know him?' inquired the old man with delight.†
Chpt 23
- Have you ever,' he inquired hesitantly of Yossarian that day in his tent as Yossarian sat holding in both hands the warm bottle of Coca-Cola with which the chaplain had been able to solace him, 'been in a situation which you felt you had been in before, even though you knew you were experiencing it for the first time?†
Chpt 25
- 'Why do you live in the woods if you belong to the squadron?' the chaplain inquired curiously.†
Chpt 25
- Colonel Cathcart inquired, blinking.†
Chpt 25
- 'You've got a chaplain who's a lieutenant colonel?' inquired General Dreedle with amazement.†
Chpt 25
- 'What kind of fish?' the doctor inquired sternly of Yossarian.†
Chpt 27
- Just why do you think,' carefully inquired Major Sanderson, the soft and thickset smiling staff psychiatrist to whom the colonel had ordered Yossarian sent, 'that Colonel Ferredge finds your dream disgusting?†
Chpt 27
- 'You don't like sea gulls, do you?' inquired Yossarian.†
Chpt 27
- Major Sanderson inquired with friendly interest.†
Chpt 27
- 'What parades?' inquired General Peckem with a feeling that his polish just wasn't getting across.†
Chpt 29
- 'What's the trouble?' inquired Colonel Korn, moving leisurely across the briefing room with his hands in his pockets and his tan shirt baggy.†
Chpt 29
- Colonel Cathcart inquired, after he had driven up for the full briefing with General Peckem and Colonel Scheisskopf.†
Chpt 29
- 'Perche no?' she inquired.†
Chpt 33
- 'Perche?' she inquired curiously.†
Chpt 33
- 'It does?' inquired Colonel Cathcart with mild wonder.†
Chpt 35
- 'Suspicious?' inquired the chaplain in a kind of innocent daze.†
Chpt 36
- 'Chaplain, aren't you stretching things a bit far now?' he inquired with a smile that was indulgent and unfriendly.†
Chpt 36
- 'Aren't you even going to punish me?' he inquired with querulous surprise.†
Chpt 36
- 'Would it be any less terrible if they had all been new men?' he inquired caustically.†
Chpt 36
- 'General Scheisskopf?' he inquired unsuspectingly of the sergeant in his new office who brought him word of the order that had come in that morning.†
Chpt 37
- Hungry Joe inquired hesitantly after a while.†
Chpt 38
- 'Gone,' she moaned before he could even inquire.†
Chpt 39
- Milo inquired with keen interest, his rust-colored eyebrows arching avidly and his nostrils sniffing.†
Chpt 39
- "Catch-22?" inquired Yossarian.
Chpt 40 *inquired = asked
- Colonel Korn inquired with sarcastic seriousness, mocking Colonel Cathcart.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something