Sentence examples for gently inquiring from inspiring English sources

Noticing: Paying attention to clues that might suggest someone is suffering body language, tone of voice, or unusual work patterns and gently inquiring in a private setting about what might be going on.

It made me deeply anxious to have either or both of my parents gently inquiring as to how I defined my sexuality.

A much older neighbor gently inquired what was wrong.

We can gently inquire whether they actually like playing travel soccer four days a week.

Muccino gently inquires: What would these excitable people do if they had freedom?

Have you (my interlocutors gently inquire) gone off the old boy?

"Could the prime minister be a little bit clearer about what she means by Brexit?" he gently inquired.

Regarding the phone, the first few times somebody called and asked for my father, I gently inquired if the caller knew him.

It is only when physicians gently inquire (often avoiding the word "hallucination") that people feel free to admit seeing things that are not there — despite their blindness.

SHIRA WEISS, a 34-year-old publicist, showed up one day with her two children at the Teaneck Public Library for the first time in years after her husband had gently inquired why she needed to spend so much on books.

I gently inquired about his plan for his pending release and he said he intended to walk out of prison naked and hoped he would be left to tackle his long hike home to Bournemouth.