Sentence examples for asked as though from inspiring English sources

My own chief characteristic?" Baudry asked, as though such a thought had never occurred to him.

Got any other coat?" he asked, as though he expected the answer to be no.

"When did he start doing this kind of thing?" she asked, as though asking herself.

What's your name and address?" he asked, as though I had been lying all along.

"You're not a feminist?", I'm asked, as though it means I'm threatening my own independence or advocating domestic violence.

"Was it a man-made disaster or a natural one?" I finally asked, as though our conversation were an outtake from "A Few Good Men".

"Remember life before Uber?" a screen title asks, as though people here had been Ubering since the nineteenth century.

'How many other ways are there of spelling it?' he asks, as though I'm a simpleton.

A minute or two later, you get the answer, typed out in friendly English ("Thanks for asking!"), as though there were a real person on the other end.

How could God allow such a thing to happen?, some ask, as though he sits in judgment like some Roman Emperor at the Circus Maximus with his thumb poised permanently between life and death.

'Another beer?' You could construe Peel's willingness to volunteer information and answer questions that haven't quite been asked as either ingenuousness or calculation, though it strikes me that his candour is part of his determination to be ordinary, or at least not grand.