Sentence examples for a discreet inquiry from inspiring English sources

Via a mutual acquaintance I got a discreet inquiry to Moore.

A discreet inquiry as to whether he lives alone is met with a torrent of mock indignation: "What is the question?" he bellows.

Instead, she called a former teacher and friend, William Aide, who was the director of keyboard studies at the University of Toronto and asked him to make a discreet inquiry.

When VICE News made a discreet inquiry, one vendor pulled a tightly wrapped ball of cloth from a shelf packed with opaque tubs and cardboard boxes.

"We made a few discreet inquiries," Mr. Lake said.

The police declined to explain their suspicion or their strategy, but a police spokesman confirmed the new arrest and said the terrorism investigation that had led to it was a "discreet separate inquiry" by British officials.

The ringleaders, numbering around a dozen, remained determined however, and made discreet inquiries among the rest of the crew.

But sometimes discreet inquiries reveal that the owner is a local sheikh with some powerful friends in government.

The investigators were instructed to conduct "discreet inquiries under the pretext of writing a newspaper article" to establish the views of Djanogly's political colleagues.

It showed that last year the then-shadow solicitor general had instructed the firm to conduct "discreet inquiries under the pretext of writing a newspaper article" to establish the views of people including a former council leader.

Dance made discreet inquiries with Dandino's owner, the Elite Racing Club of Britain, but it was unmoved.