Sentence examples for gave up asking from inspiring English sources

I gave up asking for relief from the belt.

Labour pretty much gave up asking them to do so long ago.

So I gave up asking scientists for recommendations and began asking them instead how, in light of what they've learned about the microbiome, they have changed their own diets and lifestyles.

Carol Fitzgerald and her husband, Jeffrey, parents of 4-year-old twins on the Upper West Side, gave up asking the nanny to do more than pick up toys.

There was talk of a sequel, in which Murphy would re-enact the years of psychological disarray that followed his return to civilian life – but the star couldn't decide how much of his instability he wanted to reveal, and Universal gave up asking.

The reporters gave up asking serious questions, the voters stopped reading past the headlines, and it was a very cozy arrangement for everyone.

He is making no plea for mercy; he appears to have given up asking for anything.

The Rev. Vladimir Kotenyov, a Baptist minister, said his church had given up asking.

The study did not determine why demand was low -- whether, for example, patients had been turned down and had given up asking.

"I have been met with the 'you'll change your mind' attitude every time I have requested sterilisation, and have at the age of 34 given up asking," she said.

You have to invest for 10 to 15 years with no immediate return," Mr. Han said in an interview at his farm, lamenting that 70 people who bought sturgeons from him to start their farms had all given up, asking him to buy back the fish.