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How to use inquire in a sentence

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On Thursday, his colleague telephoned his wife to inquire and found her responses suspicious.
It is not for any court of justice to inquire further, or to enlarge constructively those conditions and restrictions.
If, however, we adopt the second hypothesis, we have to inquire only as to the relation between cause and effect.
Some of them, it may be, will inquire into and after their own concernments, as they are here declared.
In 1865 a medical magazine set up a special commission to inquire into London workhouse infirmaries.
The inspector will inquire about the availability of the staff during the survey time schedule.
Click on a region for a more localized map, then inquire about availability.
Once back in New York City, the days turned into weeks, and I began to make calls to the publisher to inquire when my book would be coming out.
After talking things through we wandered back upstairs to inquire about our boy.
She came to inquire whether the swain who kept her company, and had promised to marry her, would keep his word or be false-hearted.
Being a coequal branch of the executive, the legislature has the right to inquire if the executive is doing something beyond the Constitution.
Unfortunately, Cromwell, with his eye for good horseflesh, noticed Cecil's horse and called him over to inquire about the animal.
Be sure to ask about checking out CDs and videos, and inquire about children's activities such as story time or free films.
To inquire into the meaning of the word was to open oneself to a powerful, numinous presence that had the capacity to transform their lives.
The two little girls began at once to inquire into how he came to be where he was, and how he came to be so unroyally clad.
One night in the summer of 1971, he buddied up to Wylie in the infield to inquire about the car.
At about 9pm our sergeant major came up to where we were to inquire how we had managed.
She made a mental note on her mind to inquire about his personal life more when she sees him again.
It was common for the land managers to discreetly inquire around the neighborhood to discover if the potential buyer was honorable.
In Egypt, the twelfth-century BC pharaohs had to appoint a commission to inquire into the wholesale plundering of tombs in the Theban valley.
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Achang was called, and was asked to inquire of the Siamese if the crocodiles were dangerous.
Cambyses, observing this, sent a messenger to Psammenitus to inquire what it meant.
He turned to her, all solicitude and gentleness, to inquire the reason of her outburst.
May I inquire if the sponsorship is official, personal, social, or all three?
I supposed so only, for it would have been indecorous to inquire into the meaning of what I saw.
One might as well inquire why one is so wet who has been out all night in a Scotch mist.
As to his motive for secluding himself in such a wild spot, they did not presume to inquire, and never found it out.
What became of all his waifs and strays, it might be well not to inquire too curiously.
You naturally inquire as to the cause of these flashes of light that are emitted by Stromboli.
Do I therefore inquire their names, and intrusively seek to know what books they have written, before I admire their scholarship?
Neither shall we be very careful to inquire into the validity or invalidity of the charges against his kinsfolk.
Cant., and to inquire how far it can be trusted as a reproduction of the original returns.
But I very seriously inquire why ironware is produce, and silverware is not?
It is unnecessary to inquire here whether such a contract is void as champertous, and contrary to public policy.
A messenger was therefore despatched to the post town to inquire for such, but none were there.
Sometimes several such writs are addressed at one time to the escheator to inquire into many deaths in the same place.
I made no complaint, nor did I write to claves to inquire why he had ceased writing.
Now this was the reason that induced Tancred to inquire of Baroni respecting the Ansarey.
The Committee proceeded to inquire by what authority the Redbridge had been stopped.
Deeply grateful for this information, I ventured to inquire, And did you ever see any of these pixy people yourself?
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