Whereupon the clerk inquires (of the wrong customer,) "What price I wish to pay?
Master Grey inquires if the lesson is learned, and is told again by Miss Bessie, with a toss of her ringlets, that she has no intention of learning it.
She inquires the hour of the lady in attendance: Almost midnight, madam.
Evidently the friend remarks that a last year's grasshopper leg is a very noble acquisition, and inquires where he got it.
He listens for his master's orders, inquires his will, consults his opinion, begs his permission, understands the indications of his wishes.
Whereupon Miss Martineau inquires whether Mr. Atkinson, in speaking of God, did not merely use another name for Law.
I have heard that in following the sun through many lands you reach the wide sea at last, and crossing the sea you reach a country where a man is a man, and no one inquires into his creed.
For you know that if the Archduke once inquires into a cause, he will have it thoroughly sifted.
Say, what answer shall we make to the Judge above, when He inquires of us, saying: 'What hast thou done?
It was not enough for his murderer that he had killed his brother contrary to the command of God, but he adds to that sin the further sin that, when God inquires of him concerning his brother, he becomes filled with indignation and rage.
I say when God inquires of him, because, although it was Adam who spoke these words to his son Cain, yet he spoke them by the authority of God and by the Holy Spirit.
Inquires what strains were they With which Heaven rang, when every star, in haste To gratulate the new-created earth, Sent forth a voice, and all the sons of God Shouted for joy.
Lady Hesketh, in her last letter, inquires very kindly after you, asks me for your address, and purposes soon to write to you.
I have not, however, been far from the Island of Rhoda, as the queen constantly demands my society, and inquires of Acherres after me, if I am long away.
I am told that a servant man inquires for me below--the messenger of some enamoured swain, I suppose.
Sometimes he but just inquires after our health, and sometimes makes long visits.
The character of Æolus, if he be human, is one kindly to his fellow-men; and he inquires carefully respecting the fate of the Greeks and their chieftains.
Her brother waits till she is out of hearing, then inquires anxiously what has happened at Paris since the night when he and Rose left it.
If any one inquires for me, tell them that I am gone to the Ascoli Palace.
Thus, when he has to discuss the question whether there be, in any part of the universe, a void, or space in which there is nothing, he inquires first in how many senses we say that one thing is in another.
Being astonished, heinquires the reason of it from the deserters, a great number of whom flocked to him daily.
There is a panic in the entire camp, and one inquires of another the cause of the confusion, nor do they readily determine whither the standards should be borne, nor into what quarter each should betake himself.
The case against the prisoner is not tried under the writ of habeas corpus, but the judge inquires whether any crime is charged, or whether there is a legal cause for the arrest.
Comte Lascaris inquires after you very frequently, and with great affection; pray answer the letter which I forwarded to you a great while ago from him.
Duke for having misdirected the envelope of his last note to her, and inquires if he ever received her letter on the death of Charles Arbuthnot, as she now calls him.
A letter from the Duke dated December 5 inquires the reason of this silence, and proposes calling again.
We strike up a conversation in French, and imagine my admiration for the flexibility of his politeness, when he inquires how long I lived in Paris.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inquires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
