Someone who asks a question

Usage examples of enquirer.

The affable enquirer showed him a warrant card bearing the name of Sergeant White.

In the middle of scissoring he remembered his mother holding a pair of scissors, too, going through the Times and the Herald-Examiner and the National Enquirer, the Tattler and the Star and Fate magazine and a dozen others, searching for articles she would clip and put away in a little metal box that now sat on the top shelf of his bedroom closet.

This galaxy of officers strutted majestically around Headquarters garbed in the gorgeous green and gold uniforms of the Fenian Army, looked wise, and promised all enquirers that important movements would be made in the spring.

Selecting the oldest and the most persistent of his enquirers, the ollave replied politely in a phrase off the streets.

The enquirer recommenced his work, and with it the refrain of his song, just where he had left off.

American newspaper National Enquirer published even more emphatic statements from two top Soviet astrophysicists, Vsevolod Troitsky and Nikolai Kardashev, who first picked up these dramatic signals.

I had to be polite to the curious enquirers, and to pretend that I believed them moved by the most affectionate interest in my welfare.

On the other hand, our modern enquirers, though they also talk much of the beauty of virtue, and deformity of vice, yet have commonly endeavoured to account for these distinctions by metaphysical reasonings, and by deductions from the most abstract principles of the understanding.

It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude, unpractised enquirers concerning morals, and been received from its own evidence, without any argument or disputation.

As he first explained to me during an interview I did for the National Enquirer early in 1973: "To my astonishment, the resulting dots on the graph made up a map of an easily recognizable constellation of Bootes in the northern sky.

Okay, my name isn't Buck Rogers-but the name Jake Stonebender-is, let's face it, just weird enough to catch the eye of the fine folks at Haxd Copy and the National Enquirer in the same way.

Thus one's operation would consist in inflaming one's Will to possess the knowledge to the point of devoting one's life to it, in expressing that will by seeking out people who seem likely to know what is needed, and in imposing it on them by exhibiting such enthusiastic earnestness that they will tell the enquirer that this book will meet his needs.

And these we invent and propose unto acuter enquirers, nauseating crambe verities and questions over-queried.

The National Enquirer alone would fork over, what - two hundred thousand, three?

I was a nine day wonder with my friends, the only person they knew who had the audacity to show their face on the television equivalent of The National Enquirer.