How to Use ask around in a Sentence

ask around

verb
  • The two asked around but brushed off the messages as a prank.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But my advice is to ask around—in your hotel, your tour guide, locals in the market—for their favorite place to eat.
    — Ali Pantony, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The second option is to ask around 14,500 households to give more.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • When asking around about Parker, those two things immediately jump out.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
  • At a central Barcelona food market over a month ago, one of the stall owners told me fans had been asking around for advice on how to get hold of them.
    — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • In Guatemala, the veterinarian asked around for the parents of the man who survived the water well attack and found them.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
  • As Walker worked his way up the Rockies’ ladder, his dad often sat back, observed, and asked around about how his son was doing.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Those fundamental to the past, present and future viability of the project are asking around.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The Browns are reportedly asking around about wide receiver options available on the trade market.
    — Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Determined, Thompson began asking around.
    — Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
  • After asking around a bit about this particular idea earlier in the offseason, the read here is that Tremayne will stick to being called a wide receiver in your game-day programs.
    — Mike Kaye june 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2026
  • Figuring there had to be a more efficient method for analyzing wind speeds, Handman asked around and found a wind-averaging machine from an earlier student project.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2026
  • After asking around Swift found Salgado, beginning with him at a Fred Astaire dance school and eventually at his own school.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026
  • People from across all walks of life are asked around 50 questions pertaining to the economy, personal finances, job prospects, inflation expectations and the like.
    — Joanne Hsu, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond the building’s prestige and the apartment’s scale, the price is what stands out; Griffin paid well above where similarly sized apartments are priced, with two apartments in the building asking around $22 million.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Take a Drive To Look at Holiday Lights There's likely a neighborhood in your town known for fantastic light displays, so ask around where to go, says Woroch.
    — Mia Taylor, Parents, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But in biology, redefining relationships reshapes the questions scientists ask around anatomy, genetics and ecology.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Around the same time Semafor began asking around about Tarbell, a critical piece about the fellowship and its ties to donors and investors popped up in the conservative Washington Examiner.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The photos at Nurse Dana’s workstation, for example, are of actor Katherine LaNasa’s real-life children, and the pets aren’t the only break-room decorations Ruscio sourced from asking around.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • When evaluating and comparing different moving companies, take into consideration their reviews and reputation, checking sources like the Better Business Bureau and asking around for recommendations.
    — Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Shortly after Pastner took the Georgia Tech job in April 2016, assistant Tavaras Hardy told Pastner about Alvarado, so Pastner began asking around about Alvarado.
    — Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026

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