7 sentences with 'asking'

Example sentences and phrases with the word asking and other words derived from it.

• « She handed a bill to the woman who was asking for help on the street. »

• « -Sarah is asking for you," he said. »

• « The next day my wife went around the beach asking at the hotels and inquiring with waiters, tourists and vendors. »

• « Craig Anderson asked a group of students to phone a list of strangers, asking them to donate blood for the Red Cross. »

• « When a man makes a sexual proposition to his partner, he is implying more than just asking for an intimate encounter. »

• « One story has it that Alexander the Great sought out Diogenes and found him lying in the street in a suburb of the polis of Corinth, asking him what he, the king, could do for him, the philosopher. The Cynic replied "stop standing in my sunbeam". »

• « Muhammad was not very successful in Mecca in his initial preaching. The temples of the many gods there were rich and powerful, and the people resented Muhammad's attempts to convert them to his new religion, largely because he was asking them to set aside centuries of religious tradition. »

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7 sentences with 'asking'

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