How to Use ask in a Sentence

ask

1 of 2 verb

• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024