Example Sentences

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“I am requesting support and prayers be offered me and my sister @denisedowse,” Dowse’s sister, Tracey Dowse, wrote last week on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

"I am requesting it to be reopened because I had no opportunity to respond to my case," Mr Godin-Prior said.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2022

"As the Adjutant General, I am requesting information from you on the steps needed for the Governor to activate the National Guard."

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2021

I am requesting that you provide these materials to Congress and authorize their public release at this time.

From Slate • May 1, 2019

“This would be a showcase piece, a curiosity. Your clocks are impressive, but what I am requesting would be something truly outstanding, das Meisterwerk. And money is absolutely no object.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern