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Example sentences for "you ask"

  • Do you ask that I should degrade the powers of the Higher Mysteries by dancing them out before you as though they were a mummers' show?

  • But you got my word first, you naughty fellow, and you shall have the men and do as you ask.

  • Still, whatever may have happened to the rest of us, it is clear to see that you at least have not changed, and, old friend, I am ready to trust you with my life if you ask it.

  • If you ask me for advice, I advise you not to try it.

  • You would be throwing Gresham over, and, if you ask me, I think that is a thing you have no right to do.

  • If you ask me, I can only tell you," repeated Lord Mongrober.

  • You ask me a question, and I choose to answer it.

  • But if you ask me," said Lopez, "I think he would take it kindly of you if you were to go and see him.

  • Perhaps she will take the risk, sir, if you ask her.

  • You ask me something that I cannot answer.

  • You ask," said Pyrrhus, "a thing evident of itself.

  • They'll bear me out in it, if you ask 'em.

  • Good deal of a lawyer, too--if you ask HIM.

  • And if you ask me for my advice, it is that you set off to-morrow.

  • My dear doctor,' she returned, 'you ask me the very question that I was half disposed to ask you.

  • You ask my wives when you come to Cuzco; one of them told me the other day that there was no one so handsome in the whole city, and earned a beautiful present for her pretty speech.

  • For a while Huaracha stared at him astonished, then said: "And if you prove it, what do you ask of me, O Kari?

  • You ask me to abandon the certain for the uncertain, the known for the unknown, and from a half-god communing with the stars, to become an earthworm crawling in mud and lifting blind eyes towards the darkness of everlasting night.

  • If you ask me, Bickley, I see no particular reason to doubt it at present.

  • Her father and mother are very worthy people, and they will be delighted if you ask them to invite you to supper.

  • In brief, sir, you ask what is impossible.

  • If you ask me why I do not undertake the work myself, I can only say that the gaoler suspects me, and the objection will doubtless seem to you a weighty one.

  • You ask me in God's name to commit a sin; I shall incur another excommunication, but I cannot refuse you anything.

  • By whose authority do you ask me for my papers?

  • But do you ask ME to believe that any good is to come of Jarndyce and Jarndyce?

  • You ask me what is this to you, Mr. Jarndyce.

  • Well, you ask, and how will Protagoras reinforce his position?

  • Is it to brave me you ask such a question!

  • You ask what is in my heart, and I am about to tell you.

  • She looked at me as if to inquire: "Why do you ask?

  • You're going back where you come from--if you ask me.

  • You may not think so, but he's pretty bad off--if you ask me.

  • Well, but (answered Socrates) if you ask me whether I know of any good thing which is good for nothing, I neither know of it nor want to know.

  • Pistias (he added), why do you ask a higher price for these corselets of yours if they are not stouter or made of costlier material than the others?

  • In fact, if you ask me, he hasn't any business in this country anyway.

  • He's bold, black, and bad, if you ask me.

  • If you ask me, it's a funny place to be looking for eggs down here on the Green Meadows," replied Peter.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you ask" 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:
    could readily; you again; you aren; you call; you ever; you keep; you not; you ought; you perceive; you shall hear from; you should; you suppose; you try; young animal; young artists; young bull; young creature; young female; young lord; young mother; young officer; young people; young warrior; your face; your right; your royal