All 4 Uses
inquire
in
The Secret Sharer
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- "But all this doesn't tell me how you came to hang on to our side ladder," I inquired, in the hardly audible murmurs we used, after he had told me something more of the proceedings on board the Sephora once the bad weather was over.†
*inquired = asked about or looked into
- I had to shake him for a solid minute, but when at last he opened his eyes it was in the full possession of his senses, with an inquiring look.†
inquiring = asking about or looking into
- "What was the cause of it—some disease?" he inquired, without the least sympathy and as if he thought that, if so, I'd got no more than I deserved.†
inquired = asked about or looked into
- "Are you going on, sir?" inquired an unsteady voice at my elbow.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(inquire) to ask about or look into something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)