Sentence examples for asks apparently from inspiring English sources

"Scruples?" she asks, apparently mystified.

"How so?" he asks, apparently surprised.

In the first paragraph, she asks, apparently without irony:How could the flimsy designer sundress I bought on sale — a "steal," the saleswoman assured me — still wind up costing a whole month's salary?The answer, which appears not to have occurred to her, is her decision to hand over her credit card and pay a whole month's salary for it.Later, she notes that it's not even a very good dress.

A similar line of thought is hinted at by Evans (1982), who asks (apparently rhetorically) "Do we really understand the proposal that we have as many colour concepts as there are shades of colour that we can sensibly discriminate?" (229).

"Why do you want to hurt me?" Anastasia asks, apparently unable to get her head around the pleasure/pain dichotomy (even though, I think it's worth pointing out, she seems to be having a ball in most of the film's playroom scenes).

You want to be my sugar daddy," a female Creep Catcher asks, apparently referring to chat logs the group had with the man.

Is that so much to ask? Apparently so.

"Is that so much to ask?" Apparently so.

Is this too much to ask? apparently it is too much to ask.

She put a warm hand on my shoulder, asking, apparently, if I was O.K.

"Were all appropriate tests run on the cement and the casing?" he asked, apparently implicating Halliburton.