Sentence examples for asks of someone from inspiring English sources

"Is anything happening to anybody besides me?" Capote asks of someone on the telephone.

Parker asks of someone who's had an abortion, "Did they tear it out with talons of steel?" To which I reply: "No, silly.

It's an awkward favor to ask of someone.

What you wanted to be yourself?" This is a lot to ask of someone else.

"Everyone in the country has a chance of having a question asked of someone who can very possibly be the next president".

I think that is much too much to ask of someone in their mid-20s and it explains the paralysis in doctoral work.

Indeed, when we got over the surprise of discovering him to be a pleasant fellow, he even fielded borderline tactless questions, unthinkable to ask of someone with his image.

One of the chores I had had to do always was read every word of the X issue (just out), point out faults, repetitions, typos, merits, and failings.... Apparently my reports (or a report) became too burdensome and worst of all carried queries I should have asked of someone else.

What then, Quine proceeded to ask, of someone who is both a mathematician and a cyclist?—that person seems both essentially and only accidentally bi-pedal.

I then asked the question I always ask of someone I meet who had previously used our services.

When you ask of someone something that they can't give, everyone can only give what they can give.