[
US
/ˈæsk/
]
[ UK /ˈɑːsk/ ]
[ UK /ˈɑːsk/ ]
VERB
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require or ask for as a price or condition
He is asking $200 for the table
The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage -
direct or put; seek an answer to
ask a question -
require as useful, just, or proper
It takes nerve to do what she did
This job asks a lot of patience and skill
success usually requires hard work
This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice -
consider obligatory; request and expect
I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons
Aren't we asking too much of these children?
We require our secretary to be on time -
make a date
He asekd me to a dance
Has he asked you out yet? -
make a request or demand for something to somebody
She asked him for a loan -
address a question to and expect an answer from
The children asked me about their dead grandmother
Ask your teacher about trigonometry
He had to ask directions several times
I inquired about their special today
How To Use ask In A Sentence
- Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
- He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
- Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures. Times, Sunday Times
- Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
- As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
- He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
- My girlfriend wants me to go to the basketball court.
- She is daunted by the task ahead in the second of the six-part series. The Sun
