Example Sentences

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She began posting videos of her apartment-hunting journey on TikTok and before long people were asking her for help.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Practically everywhere you look, there’s Meryl Streep’s fictional editrix-in-chief, Miranda Priestly, and Anne Hathaway’s plucky assistant-turned-editor, Andy Sachs, ready for their second big-screen outing few were asking for but everyone will watch.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

We were asking ordinary Cubans, as well, about how they felt.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

In an interview with an Irish blogger, Caolan Robertson, Zelensky said it was a "good feeling" that so many partners were asking Kyiv for help.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

I try to sound as if I were asking if Alice were in the barn pitching hay.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George