Sentence examples for took to ask from inspiring English sources

When Ms. Devi performed in New York in 1976, an article in The New York Times marveled at her abilities: "She could give you the cube root of 188,132,517 — or almost any other number — in the time it took to ask the question.

In a 1976 profile in The New York Times, Bayard Webster writes of her visit to the United States: "She forgot, momentarily, that she had visited the United States once before, 20 years ago, but she could give you the cube root of 188,132, 517 – or almost any other number – in the time it took to ask the question.

Not much, but worth the ten seconds it took to ask for it.

Growing desperate, the reporter took to asking random people on the street if they were French.

So I took to asking the Greenlanders I met: "What is it like in the winter?

What does it take to ask them to pay two dollars, three dollars more a month?

I recognized the courage it takes to ask for something, especially money, and how vulnerable of an act that is.

In view of this situation, the initiative has already been taken to ask the European Pharmacopoeia Commission to allow Ph. Eur.

My daughter has taken to asking me whether I wouldn't rather read — or write — about puppies and kittens.

So banks have taken to asking for wild amounts, assuming they will get only a small slice.

To save money on petrol, Gaza's police have taken to asking Gazans who ask them to investigate a crime for the taxi fare.