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Asking in sentence

1847 examples of Asking in a sentence

It wasn't like, I go to bed, I wake up and there's Senator Isakson, asking me questions about vaccines.
The absurdity of it all was the arresting officer asking me to pay him 10,000 US dollars and the case would disappear.
Asking "what if," instead of asking about the past, forces the brain to simulate.
SS: When Aimee got there, she decided that she's, kind of, curious about track and field, so she decided to call someone and start asking about it.
So, asking for help is basically the worst, right?
Even though in many ways it's foolish for us to be afraid to admit we need help, whether it's from a loved one or a friend or from a coworker or even from a stranger, somehow it always feel just a little bit uncomfortable and embarrassing to actually ask for help, which is, of course, why most of us try to avoid asking for help whenever humanly possible.
My partner has actually had to adopt a habit of asking me multiple times a day, "Are you OK? Do you need anything?"
Last one, and this is actually a really, really important one and probably the one that is most overlooked when it comes to asking for help: when you ask someone for their help and they say yes, follow up with them afterward.
Like my dad, for example, was a chemical engineer and I don't recall once in his 40 years of chemical engineering anybody asking him if he was afraid to be a chemical engineer, you know?
It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
That chart assiduously documents that three letters were sent to her home, asking her to please come in for follow-up.
That's the best they could come up with, that we laugh because it's our ancient response to the passing of animal danger, from which I think, people, we could conclude that asking a philosopher to define comedy is like asking Stevie Wonder to help you find your car keys.
I want to start out by asking you to think back to when you were a kid, playing with blocks.
You wouldn't be here if you weren't an engaged citizen, so we're asking for your help.
What happens is that the second this introduction of incentive gets us so that instead of asking, "What is my responsibility?"
And I kept asking myself this really simple question: if the ancestors to New World monkeys could somehow cross the Atlantic Ocean, why couldn't humans cross that tiny stretch of water?
We've got to start thinking about asking people to retire a little bit later.
Two months ago, I remembered that promise I made, when a distinguished English critic published an article in the London Times, asking who could be the winner of the Orchestra World Cup.
He was just a young man, about my age, asking me some really tough questions.
He follows up by asking, “Is it a perfect square?”
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls "tomorrow's child," asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time.
What if, out there, others are asking and answering similar questions?
I'd like to take you all on a journey up to the forest canopy, and share with you what canopy researchers are asking and also how they're communicating with other people outside of science.
And I started asking myself, "What's going on here?
I kept asking why, why would we know something so profound, but not live by it?
I walked into the Carnegie asking for a grant.
And I picked it up, and it was two federal agents, asking for my help in identifying a little girl featured in hundreds of child sexual abuse images they had found online.
And we're not going to be asking, "Did you catch the game?"
Instead, we're going to be asking, "Whose channel did you catch the game on?"
I thought I was asking it for, like, nice paint color names, but what I was actually asking it to do was just imitate the kinds of letter combinations that it had seen in the original.
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