'briefly ask' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to make a short and direct request. For example, "Can you please briefly ask the team to gather in the conference room?".
She had briefly asked people to refer to her using the pronouns "they" and "them".
Jones's works are often politically pointed, and toward the end of this one he paused at the microphone and spoke very briefly, asking, essentially, Dare we hope again?
They overlooked a rhetorical question that was briefly asked, and not answered, about the difficulty in determining "when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values".
"There were some who spoke to me briefly, asked me to sign a record and said 'Thank you, goodnight, see you next year.' That was smashing.
Two other meetings followed the election, a meeting and drinks reception on 6 July 2010, and a dinner at Number 10 on 18 November, where Cameron briefly asked the Telegraph chairman for his views on Rupert Murdoch's bid for BSkyB.
Sure, he briefly asked what happened to me, how I ended up in a wheelchair, but he asked in the same manner that someone would ask you what store you bought your dashing new shoes in, and he shrugged it off just as fast, with nary a tinge of pity in his eye.
Facebook's founder was briefly asked about regulation.
It's helped me with this and I imagine it will help you too". In trying to understand the science behind the widely reported benefits of meditation, I briefly asked Elizabeth and Sukey Novogratz, authors of the book Just Sit: A Meditation Guidebook for People Who Know They Should But Don't (HarperCollins, 2017) to get their point of view.
SJ: Oh man, there is no way I would ever do that because I was sort of briefly asked at one point.
