Sentence examples for Gently inquire from inspiring English sources

Gently inquire after the meaning behind the gift.

We can gently inquire whether they actually like playing travel soccer four days a week.

Have you (my interlocutors gently inquire) gone off the old boy?

It is only when physicians gently inquire (often avoiding the word "hallucination") that people feel free to admit seeing things that are not there — despite their blindness.

And before any lawyer (or Sir Malcolm Rifkind) pops up to object that having machines read one's communications is not the same thing as having a human being do it, let me gently inquire if they are up to speed on machine-learning algorithms?

I gently inquire about their father, last seen in the film lying shirtless across his bed, a tall hat on his head, watching television.

A much older neighbor gently inquired what was wrong.

Muccino gently inquires: What would these excitable people do if they had freedom?

"Could the prime minister be a little bit clearer about what she means by Brexit?" he gently inquired.

Regarding the phone, the first few times somebody called and asked for my father, I gently inquired if the caller knew him.

Noticing: Paying attention to clues that might suggest someone is suffering body language, tone of voice, or unusual work patterns and gently inquiring in a private setting about what might be going on.