(v. t.) To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
(v. t.) To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?
(v. t.) To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.
(v. t.) To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
(v. t.) To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.
(v. i.) To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.
(v. i.) To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.
(n.) A water newt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(4) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(5) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(6) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(7) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(8) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(9) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(10) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(11) For example, 75% of them were asked about their family life, marital status and children in interviews.
(12) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(13) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(14) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(15) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(16) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(17) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(18) In each of the clinics I visit I ask how much the surrogates are paid.
(19) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(20) A subgroup of 40 patients was asked to complete a brief survey on medical care information and satisfaction.
Unbidden
Definition:
(a.) Not bidden; not commanded.
(a.) Uninvited; as, unbidden guests.
(a.) Being without a prayer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sometimes, to manage the images that come unbidden, I force myself to picture my parents copulating in intricate patterns, summoning the image in sets of eight, for so long that looking at them makes me nauseated."
(2) The gestures and facial tics – both bidden and unbidden – have supplied further clues to what is in store when Ratko Mladic's defence against charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and breaches of the laws and customs of war gets under way.
(3) Where is the entertainer who, quite unbidden, will lead us out of the woods toward a better tomorrow - all the while bravely refusing to compromise their ineffable cool by removing their sunglasses?
(4) If they happen to get rich, and make their friends rich in the process, that is just the unbidden consequence of wealth being the natural reward of the righteous, in their moral universe.
(5) "Every time the camera cuts to Marcello Lippi looking nonplussed, the phrase 'First as tragedy, then as farce' pops unbidden into my brain," writes Scott W. "Just me?"
(6) But, hey, mind that you edit out the Satanic-voiced cackle that appears unbidden at the song's end.
(7) I thought it would be adding paraffin to a fire that had gone on too long already.” And does she blush slightly when she meets the PM now, those uncommonly luxuriant trousers floating, unbidden, into her mind?
(8) Just as at funerals, gazing on the coffin, unbidden thoughts about one’s own death mingle with sorrow for the dear dead friend, so it was that, at the Guardian editorial meeting’s minute of silence the next day, I doubt I was the only one imagining for a fleeting second masked gunmen bursting in with Kalashnikovs and mowing us all down – unworthy but human.
(9) How do you get to such a remove, expecting an unbidden fondle to be answered by anything other than complaint, a discharge of spit, the justified twisting and breaking of your fingers?
(10) The signs and symptoms of response to a stressful life event are expressed in two predominant phases: the intrusive state, characterized by unbidden ideas and feelings and even compulsive actions, and the denial state, characterized by emotional numbing and constriction of ideation.
(11) The stage directions may say benign and caring, but in repose his face turns unbidden into that default snarl.
(12) Patients can be taught self-hypnosis techniques that allow them to work through traumatic memories and thereby reduce spontaneous unbidden intrusive recollections.
(13) One female member in Pennsylvania posted that she went jogging after the election and passed a group of workmen, one of whom yelled: “We own your pussy now” – a reference to the audio tape that surfaced during the campaign of then candidate Trump boasting about grabbing women, unbidden, by the genitals.
(14) Sensible advice The more-or-less-coping majority, meanwhile, are far less reluctant to seek out advice and support than the media warnings of a nanny state encroaching unbidden into the nation's living rooms would imply, he insists.