Sentence examples for asked rather from inspiring English sources

"Did absolutely nothing go wrong?" George asked rather desperately.

I interfered and asked rather desperately whether it was me he was waiting for.

"Aren't you going to ask me in?" she asked, rather plaintively.

That is a question which politicians in the developing world have often asked rather pointedly.

After a while, she asked, rather nervously, what I was doing.

"Was he contributing much to this debate or not?" he asked rather rhetorically of Brooks.

I ask rather baldly.

The plays are about asking rather than answering questions.

Entering politics, Mr. Évole insists, is not in the cards, because "my thing is to ask rather than to judge.

Donny asks, rather late in the game: What if the guy keeps his collection in a safe?

Those are the questions ministers should be asking, rather than coming up with arbitrary targets for apprenticeships.