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:

At 9:22, after learning of the events at the World Trade Center, Melody Homer, the wife of co-pilot Leroy Homer, had an ACARS message sent to her husband in the cockpit asking if he was okay.
The interviewer notably refrains from asking any hard questions about, say, the 200,000 Ugandans thought to have died under Amin's rule.
Nields countered with “I'm not asking about words, now, Colonel.
The New York Times leads with George W. Bush asking Pat Buchanan to stay with the GOP.
The Zapruder family had been asking for $30 million and the government had been offering $1 million.