Sentence for asking | Use asking in a sentence

Asking sentence example. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use asking in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for asking.

• Georgiana was asking. (10)
• But asking was not easy. (10)
• For the asking, probably. (10)
• It is no good asking yours. (8)
• Asking me in that frantic way! (10)
• But it was asking too much of her. (10)
• Is it like asking you to pay my debt? (10)
• Both could ask; they were one in asking. (10)
• Harry went about asking everybody he met. (10)
• But I heard him asking for Mr. Beaves Urmsing. (10)
• I am now asking merely for general information. (9)
• Are you asking what right I had to be knowing her? (10)
• But this is asking for the world, and nothing less. (10)
• Nesta felt it, without asking whether she was loved. (10)
• I refrained from asking her what she thought of me now. (10)
• I felt capable of asking them bluntly what they meant by it. (9)
• Asking naturally whither they were going, he saw them point. (10)
• We are asking a young lady for the precious gift of her hand. (10)
• She horrified her father by asking questions about consumption. (10)
• They are [he smiles grimly] like Oliver Twist, asking for more. (8)
• Merthyr refrained from asking where she had heard of the battle. (10)
• She had his word to pay her debts; what next was she for asking? (10)
• I must be, or I should be proving the contrary instead of asking. (10)
• They gathered in groups by the wayside, asking eagerly our numbers. (7)
• I pay you the higher compliment of asking for you, love or no love. (10)
• Miss Pollingray concluded by asking me what I thought of the story. (10)
• He replied by asking her to make room for him, and talking of the play. (4)
• He finished his grimaces by asking the name and direction of the hotel. (10)
• Mrs. Carthew confessed her guilt, asking how it could have been avoided. (10)
• She felt sick, though not weak, and the thought of asking help had gone. (10)
• All heads were asking questions, none heeding the questions of the others. (1)
• Late that evening he wrote to the Chelsea flat, asking if Irene would see him. (8)
• The very asking froze her, almost to stopping her throbs of pity for the woman. (10)
• They vexed themselves with asking how or in what way she thought herself better. (9)
• A man who cries out when he is hurt is absurd, and I am not asking for sympathy. (10)
• Instead of asking him to forgive, which he cannot do, you must teach him to admire. (10)
• Rose Adding was talking with Kenby, and apparently asking his opinion of something; Mrs. (9)
• It would have been not the slightest use asking me to be a Christian had I wedded Strike. (10)
• Her absence that day was still a mystery; one never ceased asking oneself what she had done. (8)
• The first moment I could steal unnoticed, I took the opportunity of asking if Guy were come. (6)
• No one, countess, I assure you, has ever before made the quaint mistake of asking me for money. (12)
• That would have been an opportunity of speaking to her father without a formal asking of leave. (10)
• Read letter from Mr. Simon Harness, of the Central Union, asking for an interview with the Board. (8)
• He stayed a long time staring at the elms, asking himself what he had done and what he ought to do. (8)
• She managed to talk of my story without asking about the person who wanted to anticipate the conclusion. (9)
• And he would be asking her in such a way that she might possibly have some little difficulty in refusing. (8)
• The thought of her indebted lips, half closed, asking him how to repay him, sprang his heart to his throat. (10)
• I fancied I knew the writing, and wrote asking him whether I had not to thank him, and inviting him to call. (10)
• He ended by asking for a hot cup of tea; and Mrs. Lapham sent the pot out and had a fresh one steeped for him. (9)
• His name must positively not be inquired, she said; to be thankful to him was to depart, asking no questions. (10)
• He turned his black, solemn eyes silently from face to face, now and then asking the meaning of an English word. (8)
• Now Jorian DeWitt had affirmed that the wealthy widow Lady Sampleman was to be had by my father for the asking. (10)
• He looked at her with an instant coldness, as if he did not like her asking, and were hesitating whether to answer. (9)
• At this portion of my story he smiled, with so much significance of meaning, that I could not help asking his reason. (6)
• Then it was Duvivier sent his brother proposing a truce and asking for the conditional capitulation of the garrison. (19)
• But all at once, while she sat there trying to think how I could excuse her, she began asking me what she should wear. (9)
• His fort was nearly a mass of ruins, and reluctantly he hoisted the white flag asking Montcalm for terms of capitulation. (19)
• A note from Hemmings reached him asking if he could make it convenient to attend their Board meeting the following Thursday. (8)
• Ellen did not speak of her letters to her mother, and after waiting a day or two, Mrs. Kenton could not refrain from asking her. (9)
• Now it is slack, weakly smiling, and the brown eyes are lost, and seem always to be asking something to which there is no answer.] (8)
• Mrs. Lawrence pitied the patient gentleman, while asking him in her mind who was the author of the domestic burden he had to bear. (10)
• Roland could not avoid asking the use of it, considering that Renee, however much she admired and liked, was not in love with him. (10)
• Why had he not pushed the thing through and obtained divorce when that wretched Bosinney was run over, and there was evidence galore for the asking! (8)
• This manifesto Arnold now caused to be distributed, assuring them of American friendship and asking the assistance of the Canadians. (19)
• Yet the notion of inviting business talent into this field would be as preposterous as that of asking it to devote itself to the essay. (9)
• X Loud we heard the yellow rover Laugh to sleep, while we raged thick, Thick as ants the ant-hill over, Asking who has thrust the stick. (10)
• He began to mount forthwith, but amazed by a sudden ringing of shot, he stopped, asking himself in horror whether it could be an execution. (10)
• Not feeling sure whether it might be common prudence to delude him even passively, I thought of asking Janet for her opinion, but refrained. (10)
• The woman looked down, probably with an inward anxiety between the fear of asking too much and the folly of asking too little. (9)
• Whether more active, is a question asking for your notions of the governing element in the composition of man, and of hid present business here. (10)
• That is, he did nice things for others without asking; but with her there was always an explicit pause, and an implicit prayer and permission, first. (9)
• After introducing himself, he surrendered the innocent boatmen to the British Commander and wrote a letter to General Washington asking mercy for his wife. (18)

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