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Discover LudwigThe phrase "asks a warder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving a person inquiring or seeking information from a prison guard or someone in a similar position of authority.
Example: "In the dim light of the cell, the prisoner asks a warder for news from the outside world."
Alternatives: "inquires of a guard" or "requests information from a warden."
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"Does he know?" Maigret asks a warder.
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The warder promised to ask a doctor to come but he didn't appear despite the recurrent demands of my cellmate.
He was guarded by a warder with a swastika tattooed on his hand".
A warder at Fresnes described Scotto's unit as a "finishing school" for extremism.
These include the case of a young prisoner who complained to a warder that he had been sodomised by two other prisoners, and was then sodomised by the warder.
There was a warder, we called him Suitcase, but his name was Van Rensburg; he had a swastika on his hand.
The suit raised fundamental questions about the lexicographer's job: should the dictionary-maker be a warder, protecting the public from offensive words?
Meanwhile Huhne, who is in Wandsworth prison, was ridiculed on his first day in jail when a warder called him to breakfast shouting: "Order!
The jury was told that at 19 40, a warder looked through an eye-hole in the cell door and saw Anwar lying face down on his bed.
Visits were conducted using telephones, through thick smudged Plexiglas, with one prison guard (called a "warder") behind the prisoner and another behind the visitor.
Here, he was housed in the relative comfort of a warder's house with a personal cook, using the time to complete his LLB degree.
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