Sample Sentences for
inquire
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  • "I might as well inquire," replied she, "why with so evident a desire of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?"  (source)
    inquire = to ask
  • Miss Maudie's nose was a color I had never seen before, and I inquired about it.  (source)
    inquired = asked
  • "They gonna haul that bus outa there tonight?" Big Ma inquired.  (source)
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  • "What about your job?" Monique inquired hesitantly.  (source)
    inquired = asked
  • But will the demons not inquire as to who is master of this ship?  (source)
    inquire = ask or look into
  • Initially, he made rather general conversation, inquiring if all was well around the house and so on.  (source)
    inquiring = asking
  • The boy turned inquiringly to Beatrice, who said, "Go ahead and tell him."  (source)
    inquiringly = in a manner that seeks information
  • Yellow bamboo with a float that dipped every time a foolish fish enquired.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the more common British spelling. Americans use inquired more commonly.
  • After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the more common British spelling. Americans use inquire more commonly.
  • No one ever inquires further once you mention it.†  (source)
  • Thus provided, thus confident and enquiring, I set out in the pursuit of truth.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the more common British spelling. Americans use inquiring more commonly.
  • I struggled with my first columns there, just as I did after moving on to the San Jose Mercury News and Philadelphia Inquirer.†  (source)
  • Only the language differed from the previous inquirers—the substance was the same.†  (source)
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