Sentence examples for ask back from inspiring English sources

"ask back" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you are inquiring about a previous question asked of someone. For example, "I asked the teacher what tomorrow's homework was, but she still hasn't answered. I'll have to ask back."

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Here was one composer to ask back.

"How many flushers are there?" I ask, back on solid ground.

Wherein stats grad students ask questions of astronomers, who, if they can't answer the question, will get to ask back a question on statistics.

In another interview, with "Today," Amendola said that Sandusky had approached Victim 2 about what investigators might ask back in 2002.

Why, journalists would ask back then, did he seem so unexcited by the end of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet empire, and then of the Soviet Union itself?

But when you reach out to people and get to know them, and ask them what they do for a living, I am sure they would ask back what you do for a living.

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"Are you going?" he asked back.

"Does what come off?" I asked back.

We never got asked back.

"Are they?" she asks back.

Mr. Musin was never asked back.

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