Sentence examples for asks upon from inspiring English sources

"Where do these people come from?" he asks upon seeing an uncommonly disciplined-looking officer in full military regalia.

"You call yourself a player?" he asks upon learning that his 14-year-old son has only one girlfriend.

"But how can this happen?" the white liberal asks, upon learning that Donald Trump carried virtually every demographic of white person, running the campaign that he ran.

That she herself was named for the Nico, who sang with the Velvet Underground ("Is that person dying?" she asks, upon hearing Nico's junkie drone for the first time) also comes as news.

"One of your students?" she asks, upon hearing the news, because they've already got the Upper West Side townhouse and college-age kid farming up in Vermont, so why not go for the full Woody Allen-ish trifecta?

Now Roger has started spending weekends in a country cottage in Little Puddleton with a brash American girlfriend ("Good heavens, is it Christmas in Hades?" the Major asks, upon seeing the black brush-shaped fake tree that constitutes their idea of clever holiday décor) and has pretentious tastes in everything, including cuisine.

"How did you know that?" he asked upon finishing.

"Did I have a good time?" Ms. Eftimiadis asked upon their return.

"Who is this man?" Nancy Curtis had asked upon being told to get in touch with David Bradley.

"What the fuck is this?" he asked upon being handed an oval AFL ball for the first time.

"When is a right time or easy time to leave a program?" he asked upon arrival in Ann Arbor.