Sentence examples for asking excuse from inspiring English sources

The week my students stopped standing military-style to respond and began to work in groups, fearlessly asking, "Excuse me, what is...?", I rejoiced.

There are things in my notebook which I later published and therefore always remember: the breathless, denim-jacketed couple from the provinces asking: "Excuse me, is this the way out?"; the man walking up Friedrichstrasse who exclaimed "28 years and 91 days!" (that's how long he had been stuck behind the Wall); the improvised poster proclaiming "Only today is the war really over".

Example 1 S1: let's check dictionary S2: Trying to find a dictionary from her bag and looking to the teacher to see if they can use dictionaries Example 2 S1: what about "sarpanah" S2: shelter S1: we can check from dictionary S2: it is shelter Example 3 S1: (looking at the teacher and asking excuse me Mam "bikari" means?

Did they ever ask, Excuse me, why hasn't someone turned the box around?

In another variation, the experimenter, holding a paperback mystery novel, asked: "Excuse me.

In the study, a stranger approached someone waiting in line to use a photocopier and asked, "Excuse me, I have five pages.

She looked at Muhammad, then at me, and in a thick Irish accent asked, "Excuse me; are you Ali's son?" "No, ma'am," I replied.

As the other students listened, young Prokofiev approached Rimsky-Korsakov in the corridor and asked: "Excuse me, Nikolai Andreyevich, have you ever practised onanism?" "Of course!

Ms. Bent's dialogue reads as if it came out the wrong end of a maniacal Italian-to-English Italian-to-English Italian-to-English formal you," someone says by way of apologizing translationer.

I was eating yet another peanut butter sandwich in my car when someone came by and asked, "Excuse me, are you with the media?" We both thought we recognized each other; indeed, it was Ian Urbina, my relief.

Vendors in red-white-and-blue shirts carried milk crates through the bleachers and asked, "Excuse me, would you like peanuts?" But even things that seem normal in the United States translated in odd ways.