Words similar to asking

Example sentences for: asking

How can you use “asking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In 1958, I was summarily dismissed as a troublemaker for asking seditiously, "What's with all those footballs, basketballs, tetherballs, and volleyballs, why do we have to play 'duck-duck-goose' every day?"
As France was welcomed back to the postwar community of nations, no one felt like asking tough questions about French acquiescence in the Holocaust.
And he displays a certain naïveté about scientific standards --asking, for instance, about a diet drug: "What perfect assurance can the FDA give that the dex effect won't be the same on human brains?
(He would only be asking to hold the baby.)
And the Los Angeles Times leads with the Los Angeles harbor pilots strike--they're asking for a 72 percent raise to $195,000 a year (hence the term "TV pilot?)