Sentence examples for constrained to ask from inspiring English sources

"constrained to ask" is a grammatically correct phrase used in written English.
It is often used as a polite way of inquiring about something that one may be hesitant to ask. For example: "I am constrained to ask, but could I borrow five dollars?".

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"One is constrained to ask if there isn't something radically wrong with the ship".

At this point, as there were no other questions, I felt constrained to ask: "What makes you think any of them are historical and not just retrospective and polemical literary endeavors of a kind familiar in the Hellenistic World at that time?

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Bush was constrained to take exception to this publicly.

(Mahler, one feels constrained to add, means painter in German).

Last year, when margins were under pressure as the rupee appreciated by about 12% against the dollar and the subprime crisis loomed large, Indian technology companies felt more constrained than earlier to ask those deemed inefficient to leave.

It seemed like a deal, but why was it, Eriksson asked himself, that a captain should feel constrained to bargain with a lowly enlisted man?

Let me constrain myself to asking, of all the potential targets in the world, in France, in Paris, why Charlie Hebdo?It seems that satire especially riles those most ripe for it.

Before this, were you constrained to singing in the shower?

I am constrained to dissent from it.

Segment length constrained to be < 17667.6 um.

We are constrained to reverse this conviction.

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