The word 'inquiring' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is asking questions in a thoughtful and thorough way. Example sentence: The inquiring student wanted to know why the experiment had not gone as planned.
Florida governor Rick Scott waded in on the migrant crisis rather gently on Friday, with a letter from his attorney general about children that might be transferred to Florida: "What medical services, if any, were provided," it asked, inquiring about infectious diseases and "those who may have come through the flawed federal system".
These companies are remarkably opaque with respect to all that they actually do, and they are so valuable that shareholders will not kill the goose that lays the golden egg by inquiring whether their business methods are ethical.
People often ask very specific questions about my surgery, and sometimes admit to inquiring on behalf of a loved one with a similar issue.
Several domestic workers said they were verbally abused for inquiring about their wages.
Police sources said the senior investigating officer who was inquiring into whether a member of the Weeting team had leaked information had taken the decision to seek the production order on his own.
Thus a snobbish dowager in "Downton Abbey", acidly inquiring: "What is a weekend?"Responding on March 21st to the government's annual budget statement, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour opposition, tried a similarly class-based put-down.
There was Mr Ward, with his very adroit motion for inquiring into the peculiar burdens alleged to be laid on land.
Relieved they have not suffered more, Germans seem ready to give Ms Merkel a second term without inquiring too insistently how she might use it.Yet the election will not be a coronation.
Consider Britain's tabloid newspapers, which are waiting anxiously to hear what Lord Justice Leveson, who has been inquiring into their misdeeds for a year, has in store (see Bagehot).
You educate yourself, beginning with anthropology.Every foreigner of inquiring mind becomes a part-time anthropologist, wondering and smiling at the new social rituals of his adoptive country.
With a little discreet pressure and, said Venezuelan newspapers, offers of up to $450,000 of bounty money the police soon turned her round.Congress is inquiring just whom Mr Perafan may have turned round that he was able to live peaceably in Venezuela since (maybe) early 1996, with a Venezuelan identity card at that.
