Sentence examples for innocent question from inspiring English sources

"It's an innocent question.

Sometimes an innocent question does the trick.

This is not an innocent question.

Now, faced with Mark's innocent question, I hedged.

An innocent question, asked at the wrong time.

One innocent question and the company was suddenly out of the running.

I've learned that innocent questions often mask malevolent intent.

They asked perfectly innocent questions and parted with the invitation to come again.

More pernicious are the seemingly innocent questions which lead to a declaration of lifestyle.

No longer the sexy young thing who had to adopt "a slightly defensive posture when men asked her superficially innocent questions on public transportation.

Detectives know that she has many Chinese friends and sometimes stop at her cage and ask apparently innocent questions about them; she shrugs her shoulders and says, "No spik English".