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Example sentences for "when asked"

  • When asked whether he remembered at what time these bonds were made payable, he replied that his "general recollection was, that they were made payable six months after a declaration of peace.

  • When asked to vote they will begin to question "why" and "for whom.

  • Luther had been previously troubled by the question whether bigamy was permissible when asked to give his consent to the double marriage of Henry VIII of England.

  • Jesus, who belonged to a sect that maintained rigorous asceticism and practised voluntary emasculation, when asked by his disciples whether it were well to marry, replied: All men cannot receive this saying save they to whom it is given.

  • When asked to repeat these three names the boy said he had forgotten them.

  • When asked if he had read the manifesto or any of Phillips' speeches, the President replied: "I have not seen them, nor do I care to see them.

  • It is said that Drakon himself, when asked why he had fixed the punishment of death for most offences, answered that he considered these lesser crimes to deserve it, and he had no greater punishment for more important ones.

  • When asked if the latter gentleman was really and irretrievably dead the author of his being remarked, 'Well, you can say that a coroner has never sat upon him.

  • When asked if he still considered the Christ to be God he threw up his hand and shouted violently, "Stop!

  • When asked if he had seen the Christ he answered that he had not and that he could not understand it.

  • When asked who he was and where he had lived, all that the youngster could say was that he had dreamed about him!

  • When asked who he was and where he belonged, he gave such evasive answers that it was impossible to come to any trustworthy conclusion about him.

  • When asked why he went to the capitol on that day, he replied that he expected that the President would be there.

  • When asked whom he wished to be the President, his answer was, there were many persons in the House of Representatives.

  • When asked if he would shoot Mr. Van Buren?

  • Mr. Haslam, when asked whether a violent patient could be safely trusted when his fist and wrists were chained, replied, "Then he would be an innoxious animal.

  • When asked by him his opinion of the subject, he at once stated that the whole system with regard to the treatment of lunacy in Scotland was utterly disgraceful, and that the evil could only be reached by a Commission of Inquiry.

  • Wives, when asked if they did not wish to do more, would not like to read or write or work, only laughed derisively.

  • The answer, when asked if she was having her medicine regularly, was, "Oh no!

  • His soul seemed more in it when asked by Dulzura to play a solo.

  • And she waited upon him respectfully and took her seat near him when asked.

  • O king, it is not true that he is fallen who speaks not the truth when asked.

  • When asked why he did this, he replied, "Who can tell but that one of these boys will some day become the chief ruler of the land; and inasmuch as I cannot tell which one it will be, I must lift my hat to them all.

  • When asked what he was going to do, his answer was: "Any man not at work tomorrow morning will be given his transportation to the United States.

  • When asked whether St. Michael was naked when he visited her, she retorted, "Do you think the Lord has not wherewith to clothe his angels?

  • When asked if she would submit to the pope she could only say, "Take me to him and I will answer to him.

  • When asked to confirm this he denied it, saying that it had been forced from him by torture; and he would have added much more, but he was silenced.

  • When asked by those he met why he was taking along so unusual a load, he said that he would sharpen the dull wits of King Ingild to a point by bits of charcoal.

  • When asked what he was about, he said that he was preparing sharp javelins to avenge his father.

  • When asked what he brought, he professed skill in leechcraft.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when asked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    faint sigh; when boiling; when death; when done; when fresh; when from; when fully; when informed; when life; when mother; when nearly; when next; when perfectly; when possible; when reduced; when rightly; when ripe; when the time came; when the time comes; when they had come; when they saw him; when time; when treating; when twenty; whence came; whenever possible