Sample Sentences forinquire (editor-reviewed)
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Students should contact our office to inquire about scholarship opportunities.inquire = ask about or look into
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I am here to inquire about the job.inquire = ask about
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We have come here in order to inquire and search into the matter of Mistress Katherine Tyler, lately of Barbados, who is accused by sundry witnesses of the practice of witchcraft. (source)inquire = ask
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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
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Miss Maudie's nose was a color I had never seen before, and I inquired about it. (source)inquired = asked
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"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
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But will the demons not inquire as to who is master of this ship? (source)inquire = ask or look into
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Initially, he made rather general conversation, inquiring if all was well around the house and so on. (source)inquiring = asking
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The boy turned inquiringly to Beatrice, who said, "Go ahead and tell him." (source)inquiringly = in a manner that seeks information
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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.
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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.
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No one ever inquires further once you mention it.† (source)
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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.
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I struggled with my first columns there, just as I did after moving on to the San Jose Mercury News and Philadelphia Inquirer.† (source)
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Only the language differed from the previous inquirers—the substance was the same.† (source)
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