Sentence examples for ask attempting from inspiring English sources

"How old you are?" I ask, attempting to break the silence.

How did he get that scar on his head, I ask, attempting to move the subject away from his cranial skyscrapers.

"Are we all the way across?" she asked, attempting to orient herself.

"Is the pen a metaphorical penis?" the authors asked, attempting to establish an argument for "feminist poetics".

"Are you old enough to remember something called a theremin?" Howatt asked, attempting, in his enthusiasm, to lean forward but finding it awkward from his ergonomic kneeling chair.

These are questions I must ask and attempt to answer.

What questions might we dare ask and attempt to answer?

A measure of its awkwardness: "And what kind of name is that?" Lawrence asks Rasheed, attempting icebreaking chitchat.

"Domenico and Stefano, can you throw in the dress?" Parker had asked earlier, attempting to solicit a steeper bid.

Mr Wen agreed to take questions after his speech, but none of those chosen to ask them attempted anything challenging.The narrower discussions about China were more interesting.

We'll ask and attempt to answer these questions in Adams' upcoming online classes.