ask for it

How To Use ask for it In A Sentence

• But when you ask for it back, don't be surprised to get an admonitory finger-wagging about being over-fixated on money and wealth, when you really should be thinking more about wellbeing and the work-life balance.
• So excessive was the Roman horror of obscenity that even physicians were compelled to use a euphemism for _urina_, and though the _urinal_ or _vas urinarium_ was openly used at the dining-table (following a custom introduced by the Sybarites, according to Athenæus, Book XII, cap. 17), the decorous guest could not ask for it by name, but only by a snap of the fingers (Dufour, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 174). Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
• Mention it a few times, point out how cool it is and how you've always wanted one, and finally ask for it outright.
• Everybody says, "When you have kids, you really get away from yourself." But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it. Brooke Shields 
• They make it especially for Oktoberfest and certain people ask for it specifically.
• Instead of the usual space-gobbling water storer/heater, you get a smaller, more efficient gizmo that just gives you hot water when you ask for it. An Inconvenient Truth
• It was only the other day I read in the report of the Consumers’ League in my own city that “a benevolent institution, ” when found giving out clothing to be made in tenement houses that were not licensed, and taken to task for it, asked the agents of the League to “show some way in which the law could be evaded”; but it is just as well for that “benevolent institution” that name and address were wanting, or it might find its funds running short unaccountably. VII. Pietro and the Jew
• The irredentist ideology was eventually exacerbated by the fascist regime, which used it as an ideological mask for its expansionist policy.
• Stay with vinegar-and-oil salad dressing, and when in doubt, ask for it on the side.
• Keeping you at home, in the kitchen, with the children, while government policy rains Hell on the kind of hussies that "ask for it" from men, and scowling and sternly tapping it's foot at the men who give it to them, is all in your own best genetic interest. Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine