He plays Steve in "Jobs"

Usage examples of ashton.

Helen of Troy may have launched a thousand ships but no one was going to push the boat out for Penny Ashton, at least not at first sight.

George Ashton was a widower in his mid-fifties who lived with his daughters in a brick-built Queen Anne house of the type you see advertised in a full-page spread in Country Life.

George Ashton stood six feet tall and was thatched with a strong growth of iron-grey hair.

I came off the court out of puff but Ashton trotted down to the swimming pool, dived in clothed as he was, and swam a length before going into the house to change.

All the same, I thought Ashton would get a shock should Gillian marry and leave to make a home of her own.

I partnered Penny and Ashton partnered Gillian, and soon I found that Gillian and I were the rabbits.

Penny played a strong, exact and carefully calculated game, while Ashton played bridge as he played tennis, aggressively and taking chances at times.

We talked for a while until the girls decided to go to bed, then Ashton suggested a nightcap.

I played tennis with Ashton, then swam in the pool, and we had lunch on the lawn in the shade of a chestnut tree, just the three of us, Ashton, Gillian and me.

Apparently Ashton did not get even that relief because after tea he retired to his study, pleading that he had to attend to paperwork.

As he walked away I reflected that Ashton could not have got where he was by idling his time away playing tennis and croquet.

I picked up the telephone and rang 999 and then watched Ashton carry his daughter through a doorway I had never entered, with Penny close behind him.

Penny used her authority as a doctor and went into the ambulance with her, while Ashton followed in a car.

Gillian Ashton was a plain, ordinary woman who lived a placid and unadventurous life.

I knew little about Gillian and not much more about Ashton and, although the policemen were polite, I sensed an increasing dissatisfaction.