All 5 Uses
inquire
in
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
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- He even inquired if I wasn't too tired, and followed it up by asking what Mother's age was.†
Chpt 1.3inquired = asked about or looked into
- He'd been to the pound to inquire, but it wasn't there, and the staff told him it had probably been run over.†
Chpt 1.5inquire = ask about or look into something
- When he asked them whether it was any use inquiring about it at the police station, they said the police had more important things to attend to than keeping records of stray dogs run over in the streets.†
Chpt 1.5inquiring = asking about or looking into
- Then he inquired if I had chosen a lawyer to defend me.
Chpt 2.1 *inquired = asked
- "How comes it then," the Prosecutor inquired, "that the letter which led up to this tragedy was the prisoner's work?"†
Chpt 2.3inquired = asked about or looked into
Definitions:
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(1)
(inquire) to ask about or look into something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)