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Use ask in a sentence

Sentences starting with ask

Ask the questions yourself now, if you please. [10]
Ask him, if you please, whatever you wish to know about his doings. [6]
Ask whatever else you like, only deliver me from this awful suspense. [10]
Ask of the winds that far away with fragments strewed the sea. [5]
Ask what you will, and I will grant it you. [10]
Ask Jake there whether they can't row a mild in double-quick time,--he knows all abaout it. [6]
Ask the old Washington residents whether the coming in of rich people with leisure hasn't demoralized society, or stiffened it, and made it impossible after the old sort. [4]
Ask your mother to tell you what you would wish to know, my King. [10]
Ask Mr. Henderson to explain it. [4]
Ask yourself after this how many lives will be sacrificed when your flight causes hatred and fury to reign supreme in the soul of the cheated monarch! [10]

Sentences ending with ask

If I tell you that if you ride him you will torture me, I'm sure you'll grant what I ask. [9]
I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
What is it you ask? [10]
But what would you ask? [10]
I know what you are going to ask. [5]
She dared not yet face the question she had seen he was about to ask. [11]
Do you know what you ask? [11]
You don't know what you ask. [9]
Ye wit not what ye ask. [5]
She knew it was not, yet she could not help but ask. [11]

Short sentences using ask

Thought I'd ask you. [9]
And I ask you! [2]
Do not ask why. [11]
May I ask why, madame? [11]
I ask you, whose? [10]
They ask him to dinner. [2]
What have you to ask? [10]
We must ask the doctor. [2]
You ask me that? [9]
Well, I ask such sanctuary. [11]

Sentences containing ask two or more times

I know that your husband--that Mr. March was there; I read his testimony; and I wished to ask him--to ask him--" She stopped and looked distractedly about. [8]
I ask you to pronounce s-o-w, and you ask me what kind of a one. [5]
I was bursting to ask one question--I had it on my tongue's end and could hardly hold it back--but I was ashamed to ask it; it might be a rudeness. [5]
I ask but this--and I shall soon ask for nothing--that you will have a kind thought, now and then, for the man who always loved you, and loves you yet. [11]
She answered with the simplicity which so often spoiled the enemy's best-laid plans in the trial at Poitiers, and said: "No; for I do not know what you are going to ask me; you might ask of me things which I would not tell you. [5]
But I have the right to ask, and I do ask now, Did you not put it in such a form that an ordinary reader or listener would take it as an expression from me? [7]
I will ask the President to recommend the thing in his message (and if he should ask me to sit down and frame the paragraph for him I should blush --but still I would frame it. [5]
If my uncle refuses what I have to ask, and will ask, then the inevitable must happen, though for his sake it will grieve me; I must put my affairs in the hands of the judges. [10]
Everything which Joan of Arc did not ask for has been given her, and with a noble profusion; but the one humble little thing which she did ask for and get has been taken away from her. [5]
He wanted so many more things than he could ask for, which it was his mother's pleasure to divine; later on he would ask for so many things he could not get. [4]

More example sentences with the word ask in them

I said:-- "'Senator, you're not going to ask me to turn loose all those at once? [9]
You ask why your restless microscopic atoms may not come together and become self-conscious and self-moving organisms. [6]
But now--now ask your question at once. [10]
May I ask your name, sir? [9]
I proceed, with your leave, to ask a considerable number of questions,--hoping to get answers to some of them, at least. [6]
I must ask your indulgence while I quote a few verses from a poem of my own, printed long ago under the title "At the Pantomime. [6]
Go to the young surgeon who had accompanied them, ask him who she was, and so learn the clue to the mystery concerning her lover? [11]
To begin with, young sir, I desire to ask you but three questions at present--at present. [5]
And another, a young lawyer, who declared that he would rather face a wild cat than ask Whipple a question on the new code. [9]
But I ask you, would you have taken the same deep interest in setting the law upon this suspected man did you not believe him to be an infidel? [11]
Now, I ask you, what joys can I look forward to, and what certain happiness am I justified in hoping for? [10]
I will ask you, if the policy you are now advocating had prevailed when this country was in a Territorial condition, where would you have gone to get rid of it? [7]
Still, I ask you, do you think there is a reason why from her height she should stoop down to rescue you or give you any joy? [11]
I only ask you, at the conclusion of these few remarks, to give three hearty cheers for all good and brave officers and men who fought those successful battles. [7]
More than this you would not ask me to say. [6]
May I ask you what you mean? [11]
If I ask you what b-o-w spells you can't tell me unless you know which b-o-w I mean, and it is the same with r-o-w, b-o-r-e, and the whole family of words which were born out of lawful wedlock and don't know their own origin. [5]
Why, I wrote you twice to ask you what you could mean by Sid being here. [5]
I don't ask you to vote at all--I only urge you to not soil yourself by voting for Blaine. [5]
I will ask you to undertake to be my guard of honor to-night--we will share this room. [10]
I don't ask you to tell me what passed between you that night. [9]
I would ask you to stay to the dance to-night if your skin were only white, instead of red. [9]
Well, I ask you to spare me. [11]
I don't want you to see them, nor your sisters, nor nobody in this town; if a neighbor was to ask how is your uncles this morning your face would tell something. [5]
I don't ask you to reveal it, but I will suppose a case--a case which you will answer as a starting point for the real thing I am going to come at, and that's all I want. [5]
I only ask you to remember, Honora, that you have not explained these reasons very clearly in your letters to your aunt and uncle. [9]
And I ask you to regard with some leniency customs which must be strange to Americans. [9]
So I ask you to put the money on your cards," replied Dolokhov. [2]
I must ask you to knock off part of that. [5]
Might I ask you to give me the time? [5]
I must ask you to do something for me before I die. [10]
Let me ask you to conduct yourself as a prisoner of war on parole. [11]
I simply ask you to come to see me when you find time. [13]
So I ask you to come here. [9]
Didn't I ask you to come here and go into my office? [9]
And I ask you to believe it is not done lightly, or without due consideration, but as the result of some years of thought. [9]
Let me ask you this--that you'll not believe anything bad of me till you've heard what I've got to say. [11]
I must ask you that--I must indeed, Quilp. [12]
Anyhow, I owe you so much that you have the right to ask me what you will.... [11]
When you come, you shall ask what questions you like on that point, and I will answer to the best of my stammering ability. [14]
Then, of course, you must show us the mill working at night, and afterwards--may I ask it?--you must all come and have supper with me at the summer hotel. [11]
I shall ask you more questions some day. [9]
I needn't ask you if you are satisfied, Hugh. [9]
I don't ask you her feeling. [4]
I will ask you for the letter to-night," rejoined Detricand. [11]
I don't ask you for my own sake alone. [11]
And what will you do for love?--I will ask her what will you do for love. [11]
I don't wonder you ask, beloved Reader, and I suppose I must tell you how we got on so long without interruption. [6]
But why do you ask these questions? [10]
For conscience sake you ask that, and I for conscience sake say I will not, Monsieur. [11]
But why do you ask that question? [9]
But why do you ask me? [2]
No, no, what you ask is impossible. [10]
And, oh, won't you ask Babcock to step round here? [4]
To ask whether you are of knightly lineage would be useless trouble, and should it come to a genuine sword-dance. [10]
If you think you are not strong enough to take Richmond just now, I do not ask you to try just now. [7]
I will ask you all to pass one by one in front of me--here, where there is a good light--so that I can see your feet. [5]
Let me ask you a question, Father Damon. [4]
And yet, and yet!--Where shall I find resolution enough to ask of her who excites me to the height of passion no more than a kind glance, a clasp of the hand, an intelligent interest in what I say? [10]
If it might yet be something more than a mere post of honor to be the wife of Verus, I would not ask for the new dignity of becoming wife to Caesar. [10]
In another four years... then I will ask for your hand. [2]
Here it was written why those who asked should receive, and those who sought should find: "For what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? [10]
I wish mamma wouldn't ask him. [4]
He said he would secure us a hotel if he could, but if they were all full he would ask them to build another one and hurry up and get the paint and plaster dry against we arrived. [5]
Only one favour would I ask: would the Herr Doctor be so kind as not to ask questions about Schimmel and myself or any member of the honoured Ueberhell family. [10]
And now I would ask you to alight, and let me send your maidens into the house; for here you must put on Persian apparel, to appear well-pleasing in the eyes of Cambyses. [10]
Well, now she would ask him plainly whether he had placed it on the rotunda for her or for her sister, and let him see she was not pleased. [10]
Could he, Isaac Worthington, humble his pride and ask her to keep her suspicions to herself? [9]
Moses Hatch was wont to ask Cynthia how her daddies were. [9]
And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
I have often wondered what prompted me to ask Miss Trevor again to go canoeing. [9]
The story has won the attention and enjoyed the favor of a limited class of readers, and if it still continues to interest others of the same tastes and habits of thought I can ask nothing more of it. [6]
I know a woman can't ask that,--can't have it. [9]
She beckoned Fulkerson with the hand outstretched behind her, and said, "Go and ask him. [8]
These heavy-eyed men with the alcoholized brains, these pallid youths with the nicotized optic ganglia and thinking-marrows brown as their own meerschaums, of whom you meet too many,--will ask all your wisdom to deal with their poisoned nerves and their enfeebled wills. [3]
She now felt with joyous gratitude, that she could look Peter frankly in the eye, grant him love, and ask love in return. [10]
You may come, with all my heart, with one condition only--that you do not ask my business. [9]
Mamma is excused with a headache, but she has left me power of attorney to ask questions about our little venture. [4]
He felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his eyes. [2]
Do you ask Wisdom to be merciful and not punish sin? [5]
You once would willingly have married her, and I ask you, was there a maiden in Thebes--nay in all Egypt--to compare with her for beauty? [10]
I ask you, will you obey or will you not? [10]
When a book will sell by subscription, it will sell two or three times as many copies as it would in the trade; and the profit is bulkier because the retail price is greater..... You didn't ask me for a subscription-publisher. [5]
Some day I will make a hit, and everybody will ask, 'Who is this daring, clever Olin Brad? [4]
As your aunt will have you until you are married, which, I may say, without denying your attractions, is likely to be for some time, I intend to write to her to-night--with your consent--and ask her to allow you to remain with me all summer. [9]
My Egyptian mistress will be delighted, for she is very fond of flowers, and may I ask you to tell the king and the Achaemenidae, that under my care this rare plant has at last flowered? [10]
But perhaps you will ask, why did not the Redeemer come down among our fathers in those glorious days? [10]
Now then, I will ask you where there is any sense in training people to lead virtuous lives. [5]
He says: "I will ask the senator to show me an intimation, from any one member of the Senate, in the whole debate on the Toombs bill, and in the Union, from any quarter, that the constitution was not to be submitted to the people. [7]
For instance, we will ask the Indians if they would feel proud to obey your sceptre, Cambyses. [10]
My own mirror will ask itself if it has not changed owners. [10]
My husband is wickedly held a prisoner; I ask for entrance to him. [11]
I ask her why; she do not know, but she hug Babette close to her breast with a kind of fear. [11]
You ask her why, and she cannot tell. [11]
And this is why, and sence you laik objects of art, that I bring this and ask you keep it while I am in dangere. [9]
May I ask why you do not try the experiment yourself? [6]
And ask Gaslerie why the devil he don't send along my commission as Deputy Sheriff. [5]
You ask me why I did not go to the Effendina. [11]
I ask him why he could not let it remain where our fathers placed it. [7]
The man to whom Hebe proffers nectar does not ask for even the best wine of Byblus. [10]

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