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Example Sentences

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If Chip had asked him that question a few years ago, Jonah would have added, “And she’s got cooties!”

From Literature

She knew it wasn’t hers; she knew that Alex Rover was just asking Jack a science question—but it was still a letter.

From Literature

“She thanked me for opening up doors for her in her career and was respectful in asking for this fight to happen.”

From Los Angeles Times

I know you all want me to ask the hard questions, and I did.

From The Wall Street Journal

In therapy, which Harold attends often, and I have also been in and out of for most of my life, he’s asked what he does for fun, what gives him that “special satisfaction.”

From Salon