Example sentences for: request

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

  • Augusto Pinochet, who has been under house arrest for several months awaiting the outcome of Spain's request that he be extradited and tried there for murder, torture, and other human rights violations.

  • The Israeli press, which historically has respected the agency's request not to probe its workings, splashed these stories across the front pages.

  • On August 23, 1995, the comment period was extended at the request of commenters.

  • The CDA, as most people reading this probably know, attempts to regulate content through criminal penalties for those who violate standards of decency (standards drawn so broadly that they might prohibit, for instance, David Sedaris' "Diary" from last week) with "any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs."

  • From the inventories of the initiatives they developed in response to our request, we asked agency officials to identify those agency components and initiatives that, in their view, had successfully involved and empowered employees.


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