How to Use ask in a Sentence

ask

1 of 2 verb
Definition of asknext
Synonyms for asknext
  • May I ask the time?
  • I need to ask a question.
  • Did you ask her yet?
  • We had to stop and ask directions.
  • I would have given it to him, but he never asked.
  • Did you ask permission to leave?
  • The Virgo moon asks you to feel where the line is drawn.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Raba showed off her bracelets and asked about the girls’ tent.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • That was the first and last time I was asked to do that on television.
    — Lizz Winstead, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Babin saw a baseball bat in the car between the two front seats and asked Schuckman to get out.
    — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • When Claud asks him about his day, Rudd explains that it’s been rough.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
  • On his way in, Shelton asks the other deputy to give him a Taser.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Many have called my daughter sick, or have asked what's wrong with her.
    — Blake Bakkila, Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • At a midnight Mass, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem asked people to look for the light.
    — Andrew jeong, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
  • My old soccer coach became the coach of pole vaulting and asked me to try out one day.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Glass laughs when asked how Stewart reacted to the script.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • He was asked where the victory ranks in his five seasons at BYU.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Make sure to contact them ahead of time and ask before payment.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • She’s found the best way to bridge that gap is to allow employers to ask questions.
    — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
  • Dirty pulled out five crisp twenty-dollar bills and asked me where the bathroom was.
    — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • When asked about this, the Israel Prison Service did not respond.
    — David Noriega, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • What a huge honour to have been asked to be Ambassador for this year’s Record Store Day.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2024
  • When asked about its plans, 2K Games did not respond to a request for comment.
    — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • Taurus April 20-May 20 The world is calling your name, asking you to come out and explore.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • In April, attorneys for Del Rey asked a federal judge to toss the case out.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 23 June 2023
  • The defense is asking the court for more time to decide, or to make an exception to that rule.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 11 June 2023
  • Organizers asked those outside the fairgrounds to avoid the area.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Oxford coach Wes Brooks thought for just a minute when asked to reflect on his 2023 baseball team.
    — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 17 May 2023
  • His 11-year-old daughter came to him after Oct. 7 asking: Who’s bad?
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • When asked if she had been harassed at work, the worker declined to answer and cited advice from her lawyers.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 4 Apr. 2024
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ask

2 of 2 noun
  • The largest ask, from the village of Dolton, was for $11 million.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The more specific the ask, the more precise the results.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2023
  • That’s a real hard ask for a loved one to do that recording.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Of course, with the ongoing actors’ strike, that’s a big ask.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That may be a tall ask, but Stars fans would love to see Robertson get back in the goal column.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
  • His ask was simple: Could the new field at the park be named in his father's honor?
    — The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2023
  • They’ve been thrusted into the limelight of this team, which is a big ask.
    — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This is a big ask off the layoff but 6-to-1 compensates us.
    — Ed Derosa, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2023
  • The ask, at its core, is coming from a place of having to build up the confidence to do this work.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The new big ask may be to raise the finance to retain total IP on higher end movies.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Clearly, the powers that be were aware that landing Queen Bey would be a tall ask.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Charter flights for playoff teams doesn’t seem like a big ask in 2022.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022
  • That is too big an ask of all but the most ardent Putin apologists.
    — James Nixey, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The White House's ask will be a hard sell to Republican lawmakers in the House.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Asking Coyle and Zacha to fill the shoes of two of the top 10 Bruins forwards of all-time is not a reasonable ask.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • But with no takers, the home’s ask was slashed to $29 million in October.
    — James McClain, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In a studio, going from a black screen to a picture on the screen is a simple, simple ask.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But the ultimate ask, which was done at the Ellipse, was to pause the voting for a period of time.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a big ask from parents who are already spread too thin on the heels of a global crisis, though.
    — Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2023
  • That’s a big ask, to come in and basically improv for 17 days.
    — Charna Flam, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • What was your reaction to getting the ask to come back into this world and bring Cordelia back?
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
  • But winning on the stage on the road against the quarterback who has done it before is a little too big of an ask.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Purdue should be up to the ask to make this thing competitive.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Of course, this is was a deeply Heat-ed ask, pitting two Italianx kings against each other.
    — Vulture, 15 May 2023
  • So going out for eight weeks to do performances of three hours and 20 minutes is a very big ask.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2022
  • That was an – hold on one second- that was an aspirational ask.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Judging by the response before their wide release, this isn’t a big ask.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 July 2023
  • All of my asks and requests were along the lines of just being faithful to the source material.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 1 July 2023
  • The company and its debtors made the ask in a statement Sunday, setting a Feb. 28 deadline to return the cash.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Seeing Is Believing Expecting the company to double sales in two short years is a big ask.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024

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