Sentence examples for asking back from inspiring English sources

The phrase "asking back" is not commonly used in written English and may not be clear in meaning.
It could potentially be used in contexts where someone is requesting a response or clarification after a question has been posed, but it is not standard.
Example: "After I asked for clarification, he was just asking back without providing any answers."
Alternatives: "requesting a response" or "seeking clarification".

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Marbury, Michael Vick, Sean Avery and others asking back in, take heed.

"What is a Monkee, and why are you and your friends endlessly debating which one is coolest?" mothers and fathers all over the land were asking back in 1966.

… I submit also that France does not have the capability to clean up this mess if it ever does come to this within the next 10, perhaps even 50 years that this will transpire," Faleomavaega, the U.S. delegate, was already asking back in 1995.

But the questions he was asking back then, have more and more relevance as we turn to digital extrapolations of what was once authentic.

As language materials are placed in an action structure where they have their normal function as tools for making requests, rejecting them, or asking back, a high degree of behavioural and communicative relevance is being achieved.

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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.

Here was one composer to ask back.

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