inquire
IPA: ɪnkwˈaɪr
verb
- (intransitive, US, Canada, Australia) To ask (about something).
- (intransitive) To make an inquiry or an investigation.
- (transitive, obsolete) To call; to name.
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Examples of "inquire" in Sentences
- If you doubt my word inquire of Mr Sidney or Lady Mary. '
- "Of what would my sweet cousin inquire?" asked Murray, partaking her agitation.
- "My dear sir – you are the most extraordinary – may I again inquire your reasons?"
- To doubt is heresy -- to inquire is to admit that you do not know -- the church does neither.
- That’s entirely up to the producer and calling the producer to inquire is not usually a good idea.
- Any knowledge that I inquire is from the limited public sources that the APD can't suppress or intimidate.
- I was instructed to inquire from the German Government as to whether a German submarine had sunk the Sussex.
- I was instructed to inquire from the German Government as to whether a German submarine had sunk the _Sussex_.
- Greeks, we again inquire into the fate of Rome, 58 which had reached, about the close of the sixth century, the lowest period of her depression.
- Under the authority of this analogy we may be permitted to inquire, which is the grandest display of the Divine power, — the creation of natural or of spiritual light?
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