	Appearance
✓	Use device theme
✓	Dark theme
✓	Light theme

How to use asked in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word asked? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples

She got constant callbacks from the salesman even after she asked him to stop calling.
She had turned him down for a date before, but he persisted and asked her again.
The mother asked the child to put on his pajamas, but the child refused to cooperate.
We asked how to get to the rear entrance, and he indicated a path leading around the right side of the building.
We were asked to direct our thoughts and prayers to the people who survived the disaster.
Did it actually cause misandry in real life? Some reviewers, referring to misandric jokes and sitcoms, asked a few of their male friends or colleagues if they felt threatened.
He asked his two closest college friends to be his groomsmen.
I asked them for additional money, and they accommodated me with a loan.
He looked up at me with his tearful eyes and asked for help.
I asked the doctor to give me my diagnosis in English, not medical jargon.
I was asked to give an overview of the company's sales figures.
The magician asked for a volunteer from the audience to join him on stage.
They asked for food and he obliged with soup and sandwiches.
The boss asked us to keep him advised about how the project is going.
She asked if she could go with him, and he agreed that she could.
The reporter asked a sampling of people about their eating habits.
At any rate I had told her what I knew about 606, and asked Akkad to send her to a specialist.
I paid the head priest for the abhishekh and asked him if I could have some privacy for a few moments.
And Dolly's acerbation was aroused by a belief on her part that the money asked for trousers took him generally to race-courses.
Answers concerning the date of its publication, composition, or when he started or stopped work upon it, depend on the questions asked.
Show More Sentences
When asked about her tax plan, the candidate didn't equivocate.
The country's citizens were asked to support the war effort.
I asked the waitress to refill my coffee cup and she happily complied.
The interviewer asked me what I consider to be my best attribute.
The governor and her surrogates asked the public to support the change.
He asked Ernest if they ever played in important tournaments like The Open Championship.
When he asked her hand in marriage, she replied that she was hesitant to marry someone who could die at any weekend race.
The incident arose after Verhaas asked O'Sullivan to tuck his shirt in during the match.
After the concert, Fawcett asked the composer if it might become the Women Voters' Hymn.
The Liberian government outlawed forced labour and slavery and asked for American help in social reforms.
Since the referendum, opinion polls have asked how people would vote in a hypothetical second referendum.
When asked to change the lyrics of the song, the Georgian broadcaster GPB withdrew from the 2009 contest.
However during the 1970s troubles, security forces regularly asked travellers for identification.
Lord Clarendon, alarmed that this might mean rebellion, asked for special powers.
Despite the death of Queen Mary on 24 March, the coronation on 2 June 1953 went ahead as planned, as Mary had asked before she died.
Other Government departments were asked to follow this lead, and all Government buildings in Whitehall did so.
On 3 August, Edward asked Balliol and Bruce to choose 40 arbiters each, while he chose 24, to decide the case.
Realizing his army's desperate shortage of gunpowder, Washington asked for new sources.
The premier offered his last ministry's resignation to the monarch, and is asked to form a new one in accordance with the election results.
Disraeli went to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, where the Queen asked him to form a government.
Show More Sentences
Rather than seek the aid of the Bank of England, Disraeli asked Lionel de Rothschild to loan funds.
Accordingly, they asked to have construction halted, to which Germany and the Ottoman Empire acquiesced.
They also asked other regions to accelerate preparations for general mobilization.
Teachers testing with informal reading inventories were asked to give explanations for the miscomprehensions of their students.
It asked Europeans to create their own plan for rebuilding Europe, indicating the United States would then fund this plan.
When they asked Zhdanov if they should prepare for armed revolt when they returned home, he did not answer.
No more pipe was in storage, so a firm in Melbourne was asked to make some.
Members of the opposition denounced the bill and asked the King to veto it, which he did in December.
Asquith, asked King Edward VII to create sufficient new Liberal peers to pass the Bill if the Lords rejected it.
In 1986 Washington asked permission to use British airbases in order to bomb Libya in retaliation for Libyan terrorist attacks.
The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering, and the MPs complied.
Mossack Fonseca asked the ICIJ not to publish the leaked documents from its database.
Prime Minister Churchill asked President Eisenhower for help in overthrowing Mossadeq.
In 2010, activist shareholders asked BP for a full investigation of the project, but were defeated.
But the 2001 census was the first in which the government asked about religion on the main census form.
In some cases, the applicants could be interviewed or asked to submit extra evidence.
However, Saudi Arabia condemned the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and asked the US to intervene.
It demanded the release of the Kentish petitioners, who had asked Parliament to support the king in an imminent war against France.
Later, he asked that Katharine Cornell play the lead in the 1927 Broadway version.
At the memorial service for John Betjeman, who died in July 1984, Larkin was asked if he would accept the post of Poet Laureate.
Show More Sentences
Lafferty, whom he discovered when he was nine, and asked for advice on becoming an author along with a Lafferty pastiche he had written.
Her chief legal complaint was that she had neither been asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty.
In the same year the government asked Shaw informally whether he would accept the Order of Merit.
He was asked to leave the college in 1908 after offering a stranded chorus girl tea and his bed for the night when she was caught in a snowstorm.
Pound asked to send a cable to President Truman to offer to help negotiate peace with Japan.
The poet Archibald MacLeish asked Hemingway in June 1957 to write a letter on Pound's behalf.
He contacted Gilbert, asked about the piece, and suggested Sullivan to set the work.
Cannon initially created short films for which Arnold was asked to write the music.
When the waitress brought the food I asked her if she had any Dijon mustard.
Bowie was asked to relinquish the satellite booking, to allow the Spanish Government to put out a live newsfeed.
Blender asked Bowie in 2002 whether he still believed his public declaration was his biggest mistake.
During a weekend in the English village Virginia Water in Surrey they asked each other to play their own songs on the piano.
When he asked who the singer was, the manager told him he was not allowed to say.
I remember the first time someone asked me to grab their balls, I remember the power it gave me.
I drove home with the mystery bag on the seat beside me. I was going to do as he asked and wait until I got home to open it.
Gielgud was initially uncertain about selecting Burton and asked him to come back the following day to repeat his audition.
There he was confronted by Gielgud who asked what Burton planned to do as a part of the celebration of Shakespeare's quatercentenary.
I was asked by some American friends to search out the grave of their son near Bastogne.
In addition, 2 people were asked to pay compensation and 1 person was offered the chance to pay a combination of fiscal fine and compensation.
In The Wombles, Uncle Bulgaria read The Times and asked for the other Wombles to bring him any copies that they found amongst the litter.
Show More Sentences
Shortly afterwards he asked permission to attack the Royalist stronghold at Tickhill Castle, because he had heard it was willing to surrender.
Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?
In September 1941, he asked John Ryle, the brother of the philosopher Gilbert Ryle, if he could get a manual job at Guy's Hospital in London.
Winchilsea and Lennox asked Lord to find a new ground and offered him a guarantee against any losses he may suffer in the venture.
In 1914, Lord Hawke was appointed President and was asked to remain in the post till the end of the war.
He asked for his ashes to be scattered in Scotland and gave his own children Scottish names.
The electorate was asked to vote on two sets of statements which corresponded to both proposals.
When asked why they do not vote, many people report that they have too little free time.
To prevent civil war the Scottish magnates asked Edward I of England to arbitrate.
The king was to provide protection and help, when they needed it and asked for it.
It appears that David asked for and obtained extensive military aid from King Henry.
To avoid the catastrophe of open warfare between the Bruce and Balliol, the Guardians and other Scots magnates asked Edward I to intervene.
For this reason King Edward of England wrote to the Pope and asked for his excommunication of Robert Bruce.
Although he asked the Dauphin to come to his deathbed, Louis refused, instead waiting at Avesnes, in Burgundy, for his father to die.
Joan asked for permission to travel with the army and wear protective armor, which was provided by the Royal government.
James Balfour, a fellow prisoner, asked Knox whether he recognised the landmark.
Mary obtained one of these letters and asked her advisors if this was not a treasonable act.
Queen Victoria asked Lord Hartington to form a ministry, but he persuaded her to send for Gladstone.
Sarah asked if Nigella's momma was a poet because she certainly had a lyrical ear for a name.
On 29 October, the imperial authorities asked Italy for an armistice, but the Italians continued advancing, reaching Trento, Udine, and Trieste.
Show More Sentences
In 1935 Watt was asked to comment on reports of a German death ray based on radio.
Due to retire in June 1939, Dowding was asked to stay on until March 1940 because of the tense international situation.
Columba asked the beggar to fetch him a stick from the forest, and the poor man did so.
Other scholars, known as nativists, have asked how the differences could arise if the authors of canon and secular law were indeed the same.
In March 2008, HBOS shares fell 17 percent amid false rumours that it had asked the Bank of England for emergency funding.
After much speculation, the official website for the band redirected users to another website which asked for the user to enter a password.
Then, everyone is asked to stand, join hands, and sing Auld Lang Syne to bring the evening to an end.
He asked what I was talking to Sam about. I told him it was none of his business.
One parent and the nonriding child will at that point be asked to leave the line.
In December 2012, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs were asked to investigate alleged tax avoidance by the Duchy of Cornwall.
The American government strenuously objected, and President Franklin Pierce asked for Crampton to be recalled.
Believing that there may have been gold there he asked them to send back likely samples.
He griefed, spammed, asked to be an administrator and did many other nooby things.
In spite of questions being asked in Parliament, Sir Ivan's report was not published at the time.
They asked that their status as British subjects be recognized, along with the duty of the Royal Navy to defend them.
Some citizens of Sana'a were desperate to return law and order to Yemen and asked the Ottoman Pasha in Tihama to pacify the country.
Monsieur Jourdain asked for something to be written in neither verse nor prose.
Cars had been arranged to take Welsh through Pontypridd, and he asked Driscoll to join him on the journey.
In the spring of 1914, Welsh contacted Ritchie and asked him if he would face him in England, providing he got a satisfactory guarantee of money.
Around 1984, Peter Skellern asked her to join him and Julian Lloyd Webber in a band called Oasis.
Show More Sentences
Annie Anthony! Anthony! Don't you know what's happened here? Sir Jonathan has asked for our daughter's hand in marriage.
When asked about Cable leaving the band in a 2010 interview with Rip It Up magazine, Kelly Jones admitted to the difficulty of the situation.
When George arrived for the interview, Matthews asked if he'd be interested in becoming the band's manager.
The band have said that having watched their gig, McGee asked them if they could sing in English rather than Welsh in future shows.
While in the band, Childs said that one of the most frequent questions he was asked was about the origin of the band's name.
The participants were asked to complete an online questionnaire designed to measure psychotic traits in healthy people.
She asked her father if she could marry Maelon but Brychan disliked Maelon and refused to give his permission.
We were sitting at the bar when old mate came and asked us for a cigarette.
The Norwegian police stated that Statoil asked Greenpeace to stop preventing its activities, but Greenpeace ignored the warning.
When Matholwch saw the giant, he asked for peace and built a house big enough for him.
His mother's will had asked Pope Innocent III to undertake the guardianship of her son.
When asked to come to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods, they murdered the official.
The teacher asked her students to take it in turns to read the story out loud to the rest of the class.
Some sources say that he asked the Master Gunner, who also served as the unit's barber, for a shave.
When Jellicoe asked for a decryption section to take to sea, it was refused on security grounds.
Heath asked the British to heat only one room in their houses over the winter.
In 2015, industry experts were asked about future development of offshore wind power prices.
The work caused problems for local fishermen who asked the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm for a disruption payment.
Legend also says that Tromp formally asked de Oquendo why he refused battle though he had superior firepower.
Tromp then offered his excuses to Blake and asked for the return of the prize, but this was refused by Blake.
Show More Sentences
He asked the senate for permission to stand in absentia, but Cato blocked the proposal.
Instead, Frankish nobles of the realm asked his cousin, Emperor Charles the Fat to assume the crown.
Philip V asked them to write an argument justifying his right to the throne of France.
Bacon was asked to give his opinion and rejected the plan, as did the Admiralty.
Churchill asked Gamelin where and when the general proposed to launch a counterattack against the flanks of the German bulge.
Invasion was very risky, and he asked them if direct attacks by air and submarine could take effect by mid September.
On the evening of 12 August, Patton asked Bradley if his forces should continue northward to close the gap and encircle the German forces.
The senior German officer, Major Albrecht Lanz, asked to be taken to the island's chief man.
The American on board asked the Germans if they were aware of their hopeless position.
Field Marshals von Rundstedt and Rommel repeatedly asked Hitler for more discretion but were refused.
The agency said people taking goods would now be asked to deliver the items to the acting Receiver of Wreck on the beach.
He asked his disciples to adopt a vegetarian diet, abstain from recreational drugs including alcohol, and lead a pure and celibate lifestyle.
They presented their gifts, and asked to see the child, which was revealed to be a baby Stig.
He asked Jamie to run to the closest store and buy peanut butter, jelly, bread, milk, and animal crackers.
The building's developers have asked for some archaeology to be undertakem.
We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn't be arsed.
Her ordinary attire, she said, was in the way for an artillerywoman, and she asked permission to wear the male garb.
All Asatru organizations, publications, independent kindreds, and just plain Asafolk are asked to take part.
If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all?
Goodness, you were away with the fairies then! Did you hear me? I asked if you wanted another cup of tea?
Show More Sentences
Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.
The batsman, Kathryn Leng, asked the umpire dumbfounded if Charlie was going to bowl with a helmet on.
The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge.
Having censured the circumcision, she bethought her of kindred topics, and asked Aziz when he was going to be married.
Fred bowled me a googly when he asked me to explain those statistics in the meeting.
As an unabashed health nut, she always asked for brown rice to go with her vegetarian entrees.
The patient is also asked to swallow his own saliva after two weeks of the operation by efficiently closing the buckle cavity.
Merlini asked, his voice low and conspiratorial, in keeping with the illegality of our burglarous mission.
This time, my host asked me if I was part of LinkedIn, a buzzy Web site intended to link people with similar business interests.
Passengers who felt sick, as well as their cabinmates, were asked to remain in their rooms for 24 hours.
So on the first play, I asked the quarterback to call my number on an end sweep.
The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.
She asked about diamonds, and he showed her a very nice one-carater set in a silver ring.
Adnet asked the artist Maurice Savin to embellish his oak dining table with white ceramic caryatidlike legs.
Of the items I was asked to buy, the one that gave me most trouble was a chemisette.
The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.
Because of her arthritis, she always asked not to have childproof caps on her medicine bottles.
Brook asked the actors to find a way of communicating the idea of this picture to a blind Chineseman.
Bichel asked chippers several thought-provoking questions about potato procurement, storage and handling.
And he is cashing in chits for her that Mr. Gore, post-impeachment, never asked him to do.
Show More Sentences
When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.
He ordered a schpritzer for himself and after she'd finished her Collins, he asked if she wanted to order.
When the sub got stuck, the brass kept the fact under wraps for 32 hours before Russia came clean and asked for foreign help.
I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost. As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command out of the river.
The natural question most often asked by novice computerists is, why buy one integrated package instead of several separate packages.
There is a temptation at this point to jump up and down, shouting about how often you have asked about that point. Instead, count to ten.
Her father summoned all the courage he could muster, loaded his Dane gun, and asked his daughter to take him to this secret hole.
The Rabbi began to hondel with God, like Abraham, only in reverse. He asked for permission to make a 100 mistakes, then a thousand.
So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant?
I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!
We felt there was too much graphic detail in the first draft, and thus asked the writer to dial it down.
When two other refugees asked him to help set up a Piaget distributorship in New York, he jumped at the chance.
He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky.
Which meant she'd sound like a gigantic douche-canoe if she asked him if he had any, like, psychic powers or whatever.
This is dumb! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!
I thought the females spoke Earthian to you. Improving their Earthian was why they asked for a couple.
He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
They were asked to program an expression evaluator that could determine the value of a numeric expression.
As soon as I got on the plane I asked the flight attendant for an eye-opener, but all he had to offer was orange juice.
He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.
Show More Sentences
So my father asked the fqih, who lived in the same street that I lived in, to take me into his Koranic school.
Financially, the two New York teams have not asked for the sort of free ride at taxpayer expense that has been commonplace elsewhere.
A few weeks before Wesley had asked me to gamemaster a role-playing narrative, I had purchased the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set.
There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.
As they'd expected, Nino had turned them down when they'd asked their future brother-in-law to go in on the purchase.
When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots.
Federal troops were used to break sporadic strikes, as in Cold Springs, New York, where workers at a gunworks asked for a wage increase.
Since there is an important bill under study today, we are asked to hope that a gynaecologist will sit on a therapeutic committee.
This foreign visitor asked me how I felt about the war, and I told him that it was over, and I bore no hard feelings.
She knew she was in big trouble when the teacher asked to have a word with her after class.
In both cases, Ministers are asked questions by members of their Houses, and are obliged to answer.
California's Acting Secretary of State... asked the judge in the case not to hold court on Election Day, Nov. 8, and the day before.
On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
He urged Trebatius to capture him a war chariot, and asked Quintus to write him a description of the island.
The African bishops could not come to terms and the Donatists asked Constantine to act as a judge in the dispute.
They asked for help from Honorius, who replied that they should look to their own defence.
Still, in 1183, Count Raymond had taken Cahors back and so Henry II asked Richard to mount an expedition to retake the city.
The infosheets were intended to answer common questions asked by people in these situations, questions gathered from the people themselves.
During the scanning process, subjects were asked to lie still with eyes open and not think initiatively.
Both sides agreed beforehand that the issue would be settled that day, with no quarter asked or given.
Show More Sentences
He started back two or three paces, rapt out a dozen interjectural oaths, and asked what the devil had brought you here?
In 1527 Henry asked Pope Clement VII to annul the marriage, but the Pope refused.
They really put me in the hot seat during that last job interview. They asked lots of tough questions and videotaped the whole thing.
Strafford himself, hoping to head off the war he saw looming, wrote to the king and asked him to reconsider.
Having displaced the Speaker, William Lenthall, from his chair, the king asked him where the MPs had fled.
Therefore, during the first three months of 1688, hundreds of those who gave hostile replies to the three questions asked were dismissed.
When this was refused, he asked that at least those willing would be released from their martial oath to be free to return to Britain.
On 7 January they asked William to take over the responsibilities of government.
On 9 December 1688 he had already asked the States General to send a delegation of three to negotiate the conditions.
I once heard the Duke of Wellington asked whether he thought Napoleon or Marlborough the greater general.
In addition to questions asked orally during Question Time, Members of Parliament may also make inquiries in writing.
If you asked her where she learnt them, she would only laugh, her body shaking with laughter like jhow grass swaying in the wind.
A flatmate let me and jokely asked was the flowers for him so I asked jokely back did I look gay?
Originally a K9 dog for the police department, Captain was asked to resign for unknown reasons.
Nelson asked for and was given command of her, and took her on two cruises of his own.
The Victory had by now reached the enemy line, and Hardy asked Nelson which ship to engage first.
As he was being carried down, he asked them to pause while he gave some advice to a midshipman on the handling of the tiller.
In November 2007 The Times newspaper's Comment Central asked readers to define Britishness in five little words.
The prime minister asked the home secretary to keep a close watch on the flooding situation.
The Soviets showed some interest, but asked for concessions from Finland, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Japan that Germany considered unacceptable.
Show More Sentences
I asked Suresh if Keralans had been better off when they were ruled by maharajas.
Before he left, he asked for a note so that he would not be charged with desertion.
The diversion of heavier bombers to the Balkans meant that the crews and units left behind were asked to fly two or three sorties per night.
Over a quarter of patients were not asked if they smoke and nearly three quarters of smokers were not asked if they wanted to stop.
A referendum was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014 which asked citizens whether Scotland should be an independent country.
Charles was further humiliated when he asked the Speaker, William Lenthall, to give their whereabouts, which Lenthall famously refused to do.
Charles Barry asked Pugin to design the clock tower because Pugin had previously helped Barry design the Palace.
In 1323 Henry Lambard, a cleric, was brought before a court and asked how he wished to clear himself of charges of theft.
Lambard said in English that he was a cleric and was then asked if he knew Latin or French.
On her way to Scotland in 1290, however, Margaret died at sea, and Edward was again asked to adjudicate between 13 rival claimants to the throne.
Late in the evening, Mick left with a parishioner who asked for counseling, and I sat at the bar until last call.
In 1835 John Ashley was on the shore at Clevedon with his son who asked him how the people on Flat Holm could go to church.
When asked to draw a dividing line between North and South, Southerners tend to draw this line further south than Northerners do.
Those in the minority are asked to give the action they would have preferred.
In 1671, the Royal Society asked for a demonstration of his reflecting telescope.
Priestley was asked to join this unique society and contributed much to the work of its members.
Babbage and Herschel were asked to oversee a trial project, to recalculate some part of those tables.
That is why I asked the question, to get people to think about it, and to be aware of the dangers we now face.
They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both William Lawrence Bragg and Wilkins.
He asked John Griffith to try to calculate attractive interactions between the DNA bases from chemical principles and quantum mechanics.
Show More Sentences
The service was commercially successful enough for a sister ship to be required, which Brunel was asked to design.
The terms asked for by the Rennies proving unacceptable, George Stephenson was reappointed as engineer with his assistant Joseph Locke.
In 1763, Watt was asked to repair a model Newcomen engine belonging to the university.
Jenner had sent the paper informally to Sir Joseph Banks, the Society's president, who asked Everard Home for his views.
Travellers were asked to stand on the right so that anyone wishing to overtake them would have a clear passage on the left side of the escalator.
After the Carthaginian intercession, Messana asked Rome to expel the Carthaginians.
I don't know why he asked me to do that, when I had long since finished it.
A resolution passed in 1948, the UN's General Assembly asked Pakistan to remove most of its troops as a plebiscite would then be held.
Besides hospitality, the Frankish bishops and kings provided interpreters and were asked to allow some Frankish priests to accompany the mission.
At the rise of meeting, the witnesses, including the youngest children, are asked to sign the wedding certificate as a record.
On 13 April 1534, More was asked to appear before a commission and swear his allegiance to the parliamentary Act of Succession.
In 2006 Cornish MP Dan Rogerson asked the government to make 5 March a public holiday in Cornwall to recognise celebrations for St Piran's Day.
This led to Clarendon, where Becket was officially asked to agree to the King's rights or face political repercussions.
I gathered my things and asked the Negroes to return the scalps they'd stolen, along with my madstone.
A smaller number is suggested by the results of the 2001 Census, in which a question about religious affiliation was asked for the first time.
In July 2010 the UK government asked ONS to explore other methods of measuring the population.
The 2011 Scotland Census asked 13 household questions and up to 35 questions for each individual.
Private citizens with an interest in the road could be asked to contribute to its repair.
Because of the fragile landscape, walkers are asked to follow the path only in summer.
Western horses are asked to perform with a loose rein, controlled by one hand.
Show More Sentences
Digby, the first to mount the scaffold, asked the spectators for forgiveness, and refused the attentions of a Protestant clergyman.
Beckham was asked what it would mean for the Olympics to be held in his old neighbourhood.
A friend of my daughter's saw the Marsee tankbag on my desk and asked if it was my new manpurse.
Hilliard asked that Cecil employ his son as a clerk, because he could not keep him in his own trade.
Michael of Cesena had asked Ockham to review arguments surrounding Apostolic poverty.
Once a hypothesis is strongly supported by evidence, a new question can be asked to provide further insight on the same topic.
When additional information is needed before a study can be reproduced, the author of the study might be asked to provide it.
He was later asked by his tutor to produce a Latin translation of Alexander Pope's Messiah as a Christmas exercise.
In an effort to end such rejections, Pope asked Lord Gower to use his influence to have a degree awarded to Johnson.
Hester Thrale did not completely abandon Johnson, and asked him to accompany the family on a trip to Brighton.
She asked in what sort of accident I had broken my back, and when I told her that I had been shot down she became much more matey.
Leigh Hunt's son, the editor Thornton Leigh Hunt, was later asked by John Bedford Leno whether he preferred Shelley or Byron as a man.
Lord Amberley was an atheist and his atheism was evident when he asked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to act as Russell's secular godfather.
Russell was asked by The New Republic, a liberal American magazine, to elaborate his views on world peace.
He asked Christopher Huffam, rigger to His Majesty's Navy, gentleman, and head of an established firm, to act as godfather to Charles.
Nevertheless, they were asked to return to Brussels as they were regarded as being competent and were needed.
On the Sunday morning she felt weaker and asked if she could be taken back to Haworth.
Kipling's family became yearly visitors to Simla, and Lockwood Kipling was asked to serve in Christ Church there.
In September 1914, Kipling was asked by the British government to write propaganda, an offer that he immediately accepted.
The Famous Five series gathered such a following that readers asked Blyton if they might form a fan club.

	Find more words!








asked
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

How to use asked in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word asked? Here are some examples.

See Also