Answer Sentence Examples

He put her answer down in his note book.

Alex didn't answer and it went to his voice mail, so she left a message.

How will you answer him?

If she does not know the answer to a question, she guesses with mischievous assurance.

In order to answer her questions, I have been obliged to read a great deal about animals.

He said, but didn't answer my question.

True, but her answer left Carmen's stomach tied in a knot.

That wasn't going to be the answer, and he must know that by now.

You will answer for it, Captain.

There was only one answer, of course.

No matter how often she asked herself the question, the answer remained elusive.

The answer was as obvious as it was embarrassing.

Accountability must be at as low a level as possible, so that if government officials mess up, they answer to constituents in their locality.

He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question.

Connie contemplated the answer and nodded.

She took her time considering her answer.

At first his mother tried to answer all his questions.

He did not know whom to answer, and for a few seconds collected his thoughts.

Martha jumped to answer it with Betsy following.

It puts to rest many questions which he would otherwise be taxed to answer; while the only new question which it puts is the hard but superfluous one, how to spend it.

I'm not sure she knows the answer herself but a lot of marriages are built on far less.

The girl's opened her mouth to answer.

He deserved an honest answer about her response.

Dean was wondering about her answer, as the telephone rang.

Edith hesitated, as if pondering her answer.

But she wouldn't answer.

They both knew the other obvious answer.

What was he waiting for - an answer to that questioning kiss?

If Toby can't find that answer, it's not something any of the angels know.  Or he's too young to tap into it fully.

Kris didn't answer, not wanting to think of how that conversation would go with the deity.  He tested his power again.  Kiki was right; they had none.

That would answer a lot of questions.

The answer is yes.

And my system will come back with a single answer, something like, You should go to Tommaso's on Kearny Street.

You would be amused to see me hold a squealing pig in my arms, while Helen feels it all over, and asks countless questions--questions not easy to answer either.

Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental.

And scarcely had she put that question than God gave her the answer in her own heart.

Pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything.

As if in answer to her question, he dug a tin from his shirt pocket and handed it to her.

Alex had the answer to a question that was important to him.

That was his 'final answer' look which dictated there should be no more discussion.

At least her answer wasn't no, and she had been thinking about it – researching.

Gabriel was too busy to answer.

She deserved it after last night, but still, why didn't he at least answer and tell her he was done with her?

The answer was mix of advanced medicine and magic.

But before Fred could answer, Cynthia patted him on the shoulder.

Dean paused half way through his pie, awaiting Fred's answer.

Dean didn't answer quick enough before Fred began eating his pie.

The boy looked at his mother for an answer.

She bit her lip but didn't answer, causing an uncomfortable silence.

As he rose to answer it, he couldn't help noticing Edith Shipton's alarmed reaction to the ring.

Neither Fred nor Cynthia had a ready answer.

The answer seemed to please Edith Shipton and she appeared to relax.

He turned and walked off before waiting for an answer.

Dean agreed and telephoned Janet O'Brien from the hall but there was no answer.

I know we'll probably never learn the answer, but I still can't fathom what could have happened back in Boston to make Annie Quincy desert a comfortable life.

She pulled away and growled her answer.

I don't want to answer any questions.

He prays for an answer and I cry for his pain.

When Weller didn't answer, Dean finally said, I was looking for Cynthia.

Weller rocked back and at first Dean didn't think he'd answer.

If you ain't here, Corday and the police can't ask you questions you might not want to answer, like what's Cynthia's Indiana address.

You weren't her answer.

His neck was red and for the first time since she had met him, he didn't have a quick answer.

But you didn't answer my question.

She woke and prayed fervently for an answer, and then fell asleep again - to the same nightmare.

I've been praying and praying, but I don't get an answer.

And he must know what her answer would be.

Brady waited, unusually interested in her answer.

He expected her to name off Tim and answer his unasked question about the relationship between the two of them.

He didn't realize how much he relied upon Angel's soothing voice until he heard her answer.

He burned to know the answers to Elise's questions, not even able to fathom what the answer could be.

She didn't answer but returned to the couch, perching on the edge.

His teeth were grinding loudly enough for her to hear, and his face was ashen and drawn in a look of pain.  He couldn't answer – that much she discerned at the rippling muscles of his clenched jaw.

Katie didn't answer for a moment, pensive.  Gabe glanced back at her then slowed, as if sensing she was growing tired.

Kiki didn't have a chance to answer before the wooden door to their prison creaked open.  Rhyn's head spun as he was hauled up and dragged into a well-lit hallway.  Light and shadows wreaked havoc on his sense of place and time until he hit the cool stone floor again.

Rhyn considered how he might use the demon, as he had once before.  He didn't answer, pushing the door open to the cell block.  Nearly all the cells were empty.  "Where is everyone?" he asked.

Answer me, Kris.  What is your deepest desire?

Toby didn't answer, unwilling to admit just how much Ully's words stung.  He led them deeper into the jungle.  The branches hurried to create a path for him, and he smiled at them.  According to his angel memories, the trees were more than trees in Death's underworld.  They were alive.

Mrs. Riley set down the phone and moved to the door to answer it.

Marian, it's too early for a definitive answer, but don't give away your old golf outfit just yet.

He returned to his rocker, sipped his beer and began to patiently answer the barrage of Fred's questions about his day's activities.

He ticked off the items he had learned about Jeffrey Byrne during the course of the day, as much for his own review as to answer Fred's rapid-fire questions.

Fred's answer came just as the music switched to a shrill voice pleading for her lover to come back to the hills.

They alternated discussing what was hap­pening in their lives while the other nodded, injecting a polite one word answer occasionally, just to properly pretend interest.

Dean slowly unwound himself from behind the steering wheel and crossed to answer it.

Dean didn't answer, but held out his wallet to show his ID.

This guy's got the answer to every little kid's what-would-you-do-if­you-had-a-million-bucks question.

They climbed the stairs but there was no sign of life and no answer to knocks.

Dean had no ready answer.

He could answer that one without any effort—he hadn't decided.

Dean didn't answer.

He wasn't sure how to answer.

The answer had frightening implications with Fred O'Connor at home alone.

There was no answer at Collingswood Avenue—not a good sign.

No, no, don't answer that either.

Dean started to answer but Randy continued.

While he knew he should report his suspicion of being bugged, he feared having to answer questions about his clandestine work in the Byrne matter.

The phone rang twice and Randy tripped as he dashed across the room to answer.

Once again, she didn't answer directly but described a well-known seafood restaurant on the New Jersey shore, at least two hours from Parkside.

He bent his head back on the seat and closed his eyes but he didn't answer.

He didn't answer and silence dragged on.

She asked point-blank if I thought her husband was alive and I wouldn't answer.

He took his time strolling down row after row of tents, paus­ing briefly to answer a young man's question about directions.

Dean didn't stop to answer as he broke into a jog with Fred hustling to keep up.

Even I know the answer.

I was concerned when you didn't answer your phone.

His lips were so soft and warm, seeking an answer to a primal question.

He swished the remaining coffee around in his cup and didn't answer immediately.

His answer was a monotone and a hug.

The doorbell rang and Katie went to answer it.

His startled look reminded her that the reverend was waiting for her answer.

He glanced at her in the mirror and stopped shaving long enough to answer.

Josh was watching her, waiting for an answer.

But why didn't you answer my call?

Jim and the buggy followed, the old cab-horse being driven by Zeb while the Wizard stood up on the seat and bowed his bald head right and left in answer to the cheers of the people, who crowded thick about him.

That is the beautiful answer which the Bible gives.

New experiences and events call forth new ideas and stir men to ask questions unthought of before, and seek a definite answer in the depths of human knowledge.

He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned and went out of the corridor.

And as Princess Mary gave no answer, she left the room.

If you won't answer, I'll tell you...

There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them.

To Pierre's inquiries as to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to tell the truth.

I shall answer for it and not you, and you'd better not buzz about here till you get hurt.

Pierre did not answer him and asked briefly whether his proposal would be accepted.

They did not answer but began to laugh.

After reading the letter Natasha sat down at the writing table to answer it.

Natasha did not answer her questions.

In answer to Toll, Paulucci suggested an advance and an attack, which, he urged, could alone extricate us from the present uncertainty and from the trap (as he called the Drissa camp) in which we were situated.

I don't know, I am very far from having military tastes, but in these times no one can answer for himself.

Timokhin looked about in confusion, not knowing what or how to answer such a question.

You must answer the chief.

Whatever the reason, she felt compelled to answer flippantly.

Wear this above your left ear if the answer is no - right if the answer is yes.

The answer came to her so quickly that it brought a smile to her lips.

He shook his head, declining to answer until he had swallowed the food in his mouth.

Part of me was hesitant to answer but something in the old man's voice gave me confidence he possessed no untoward ambitions.

Julie bit her lip but didn't answer.

I stumbled over my answer.

Why should she answer the door?

She turned toward the kitchen before I could answer.

He was looking for an answer.

I'm still undecided which one is my target but I'll soon have my answer and more!

His answer made 'once in a while' sound more like always.

All you have to do is pick up, and I'll answer.

Yet, he felt her death was not the answer.

I can't refuse to answer you.

I think I know the answer, but do we have any records that survived the Schism?

When he didn't answer, she continued.

The portals didn't answer her at all when she was upset.

Martha didn't answer but after a short time she asked to be excused.

Cynthia thought a second or two, careful with her answer.

Cynthia sighed, not quite sure how to answer.

I can't answer that for sure, but don't you think their sudden interest in the property and the discovery of the bones is quite a coincidence?

She was in before he could answer.

Dean didn't answer but they both knew he agreed.

I'm as curious by nature as the next person, probably even more so, but to answer your question; no.

I can answer no, without a doubt.

The answer came with her next thought.

I may answer it.

He lifted up a bit to see her feet and found the answer.

She rang the doorbell and we waited for someone to answer.

When Byrne failed to answer a wake-up call the following morning, a clerk finally opened his room.

Why would he skip, answer me that?

Mayer's telephone rang and he excused himself to answer it, leaving Dean at Jeffrey Byrne's grey steel desk.

Before Dean could answer, Mayer returned and Rudman beat a hasty retreat to his cubby hole.

But hurry up with an answer.

At first he wouldn't answer the door but I could hear his wife bawling so I kept knock­ing 'til he came.

Cece Baldwin didn't answer yet another call made from a corner payphone.

Dean surprised himself with the firmness of his answer.

You left work and came over here just because I didn't answer the phone?

It crossed her mind not to answer it at all, but maybe he had learned something from the last call and would get to the point.

With every step toward the phone she told herself she shouldn't answer it – shouldn't lose her temper.

When he didn't answer, she looked up to see why.

When he continued to wait for an answer, she sighed.

Without waiting for an answer, he headed for the kitchen, stopping briefly to turn on the stereo.

In answer, Carmen set her glass on the sill and stood.

Later that evening the phone in his office rang and he left the room to answer it.

That was a comforting answer, but I'm not sure it was accurate.

It was a question for which there was no answer.

Instantly the answer was clear.

She wasn't going to dignify that question with an answer.

The answer was obvious.

When he didn't answer, she dropped the mop in the bucket and looked at his face to see if he was angry.

She's been hounding me for an answer.

He was probably upset that she didn't answer her cell phone, but he had given her strict orders not to use it when she was driving.

Why didn't you answer mine?

It started out as a question, but the answer was obvious – so obvious that he didn't respond.

Before she could answer, he erupted.

The next morning at church, Carmen said something to Alex and he leaned down to hear her answer.

She lay in his arms, afraid to answer the desire pounding at the door of her heart — afraid he would discover she was no longer the woman he married.

Alex needed to give Social Services an answer tomorrow.

Breakfast was interrupted by the telephone, and Alex went to answer it.

She hesitated, aware she never should've told Damian, let alone allowed Xander to pry the answer out of her when they'd met.

It wasn't the answer he wanted.

Please answer the question.

You really need me to answer that question?

If that's not the answer, then you'll figure it out, Jenn, and you'll do it in two days.

I'll destroy every Guardian on this planet if you don't bring me the answer I want.

He wants to know the answer to a question.

I ask you a question, you answer with the honest truth.

She resisted the urge to reach for a knife, knowing this was a test without knowing what answer it was Darian wanted.

You have to answer.

One condition, and I'll answer your question.

She didn't answer, but Darian could feel her distress.

Her throat was too tight to answer, so she nodded her agreement.

Bianca heard her voice catch and couldn't answer.

The answer from her Watcher was far briefer than its normal exchanges.

He feared the answer, and he'd never let one of these creatures see him vulnerable.

But you will answer only to me, and only to my gold.

He sensed it was not the answer she sought.

The answer he wanted to give lingered at the forefront of his tongue.

You will answer to me, Taran.

Twenty years, and the answer was bound to his forearm!

She waited for more, her heart falling when he didn't expand on the simple answer.

She resisted a smile as the answer came to her instantly.

If her answer had been no, he would have again put her in a position where she would be to blame for Jonathan's state of unhappiness.

If you're wondering if I'm concerned about being up here alone with three strange men, the answer is no.

He didn't answer until he had it placed.

When his friend knocked on the door, he waited for Carmen to answer it and when Gerald made the introductions, Alex said nothing – not even when Rob made a comment that would normally have raised an eyebrow.

Aaron smiled, but was obviously waiting for a serious answer.

The stallion didn't answer.

He was waiting for an answer.

It crossed her mind that she might find the answer there when he was gone to work.

Obviously the answer she had given him in the beginning hadn't satisfied his need.

He was waiting for the answer she didn't want to give him.

He turned and stalked out of the barn without waiting for an answer.

He didn't call to say where he was and when she tried to call, he didn't answer his phone.

I can see why you didn't answer.

Carmen might be the only one in the room who was not surprised by his answer.

Her dark gaze searched Carmen's, and when she didn't get an answer, she sighed.

He opened his mouth to answer and then hesitated.

How could she answer that without hurting his feelings?

Her answer came swift and positive.

Why couldn't he accept no for an answer?

Just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean the conversation has degenerated.

Violence was no answer to a problem, but he had been inviting this for the last year.

Whatever Damian wants, the answer is no.

I guess to ask you another question, if you'll answer.

Not exactly the answer I sought.

Jessi sighed, uncertain how to answer.

You told me months ago I was in for a surprise that would answer a question I didn't know needed asking.

But I think I know the answer.

He still didn't understand the question Sofi wanted him to know, but the fact the woman capable of operating on stealth-mode was the answer did not set well with him.

He held her against his hard, thick frame, his gentle kiss a question she didn't want to answer truthfully.

He was dressed in dark jeans and a snug, dark t-shirt that made him look too sexy for her to answer for a moment.

I'll accept that as an answer.

No guarantees I'll answer.

You can't just answer the question for once?

I think you know that answer.

I hate that answer!

Xander understood the question Sofi wouldn't tell him, the one he had the answer to already.

Answer my question, and I'll do for her what I did for you.

Hoadly was shrewd enough not to answer the most brilliant, though comparatively unknown, of his antagonists, William Law.

The atomist has an easy answer; he says that the new body is made up by the juxtaposition of the atoms of iodine and mercury, which still exist in the red powder.

The British government obtained no satisfactory answer to its remonstrances, and Sir Robert Hart, finding himself placed in a subordinate position after his long service, retired in July 1907.

It is a sufficient answer to remark that on this theory the blue would reach its maximum development in the colour of the setting sun.

The declaration of war by England against Scotland, in answer to the recent Franco-Scottish negotiations, prevented his return.

But no answer could be extracted from the king, and after some delay Lord Salisbury took the seals.

The answer to that question is the method of Descartes.

Not satisfied with seed-sown grass or meadow turf, they experimented with seaside turf and found it answer admirably.

His strange title is given him in the chronicles on the strength of a story that he put two brothers of the name of Carvajal to death tyrannically, and was given a time, a plazo, by them in which to answer for his crime in the next world.

Suffice it to say that differences with Irala eventually led to his arrest, and to his being sent back to Spain to answer to the charges brought against him for maladministration.

Charles in the Answer to the Petition (June 13, 1642) speaks of cavaliers as a "word by what mistake soever it seemes much in disfavour."

In 1796 he published, in answer to Thomas Paine, an Apology for the Bible, perhaps the best known of his numerous writings.

The judges at Babylon seem to have formed a superior court to those of provincial towns, but a defendant might elect to answer the charge before the local court and refuse to plead at Babylon.

If we answer " Yes " to that question, we pass on from intuitionalism to idealism - an idealism not on the lines of Berkeley (matter does not exist) but of Plato (things A obey an ascertainable rational necessity).

And the other man does not know the way, as you can soon see; therefore I must ' - should we answer, `Lead on, I follow'?"

His Philosophy of Nature - one of the least admired parts of his system - is the answer from his point of view to Kant's assertion that a " perceptive understanding " is for us impossible.

Or at least he has rightly seen what are the assertions to aim at; it is difficult to accept the principle or method upon which his answer to the riddle proceeds, the dialectic method.

It is philosophy called into court to answer selected questions.

Leibnitz's philosophy has no answer for us.

Sir Edward Coke finds in Magna Carta a full and proper legal answer to every exaction of the Stuart kings, and a remedy for every evil suffered at the time.

His advocacy of an American episcopate, in connexion with which he wrote the Answer to Dr Mayhew's Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (London 1764), raised considerable opposition in England and America.

The broad Pacific depression seems to answer to the broad elevation of the Old World - the narrow trough of the Atlantic to the narrow continent of America."

In answer to his petition for the dukedom, the king had, on the 6th of June 1644, given him a patent of the earldom of Norfolk, in order, as it would seem, to flatter him by suggesting that the title of Norfolk would at least be refused to any other family.

So far we have dealt with forms of address explicitly directed towards a power that, one might naturally conclude, has personality, since it is apparently expected to hear and answer.

Another source is mythologic fancy, which, in answer to childlike questions; "Who made the world?"

That the English peerage does not answer to the true idea of a nobility will be seen with a very little thought.

That union would answer rather to the union of the three patrician tribes of Rome.

The Spartans answer to the patricians, the 7reploLKOC to the plebs; the helots are below the position of plebs or demos.

Had they been able to establish and to maintain any kind of privilege, even that of mere honorary precedence, they would exactly answer to continental nobility.

In reply to the very natural question why the Moravians began their work in England, the answer given by history is that John Wesley, on his voyage to Georgia (1735) met some Moravian emigrants; that on his return he met Peter Boehler, who was on his way to North Carolina; that through Boehler's influence both John and Charles Wesley were "converted" (1738).

Whether the intelligence and efficiency of the officials charged by the state with the handling of its railway system will be sufficient to make them act in the interest of the public as fully as do the managers of private corporations, is a question whose answer can only be determined by actual experience in each case.

The French government had issued a manifesto preparatory to a declaration of war, and Gibbon was solicited by Chancellor Thurlow and Lord Weymouth, secretary of state, to answer it.

He seems to regard this body of literature as the answer to the charge that the Jews had contributed nothing useful for human life.

He came in answer to the summons - but attended by a bodyguard and protected by the word of Sextus.

Complaint was made to Vitellius, then legate of Syria, and Pilate was sent to Rome to answer for his shedding of innocent blood.

In spite of the admission of their co-religionists to high office in the government, the Mussulmans, it is true, still complained of continuous ill-treatment having for its object their expatriation; but these complaints were declared by Sir Edward Grey, in answer to a question in parliament, to be exaggerated.

In the substance of their answer to Hume, the two philosophers have therefore much in common.

Heracles sought him in vain, and the answer of Hylas to his thrice-repeated cry was lost in the depths of the water.

His Utilitarianism (published in Fraser's in 1861) was a closely-reasoned systematic attempt to answer objections to his ethical theory and remove misconceptions of it.

When the two brothers combined, Antiochus again invaded Egypt (168), but was compelled to retire by the Roman envoy C. Popillius Laenas (consul 172), after the historic scene in which the Roman drew a circle in the sand about the king and demanded his answer before he stepped out of it.

To answer this question we must collect the wages assessments sanctioned by the magistrates.

Bruce is reputed to have been one of the advisers who assisted in framing it; but a provision that his castle of Kildrummy was to be placed in charge of a person for whom he should answer shows that Edward, not without reason, suspected his fidelity.

What makes Origen's answer so instructive is that it shows how close an affinity existed between Celsus and himself in their fundamental philosophical and theological presuppositions.

They shall answer for it to all Europe."

After the disastrous defeat of Leipzig (r 7th-19th Dctober 1813), when French domination in Germany and Italy -vanished like an exhalation, the allies gave Napoleon another opportunity to come to terms. The overtures known as the Frankfcrt terms were ostensibly an answer to the request for information which Napoleon made at the field of Leipzig.

Camille sharply replied that he would answer with Rousseau, - "burning is not answering," and a bitter quarrel thereupon ensued.

He asked him for information about Thule, but Aungervyle, who promised information when he should once more be at home among his books, never sent any answer, in spite of repeated enquiries.

If the answer was in the affirmative, a day was fixed for the voting in the eighth prytany.

The problem is difficult, and no satisfactory answer has been given.

Nearly all the parishes in Argyll, Inverness, Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness and Orkney and Shetland answer to this description.

Before we are prepared to answer this question we must be furnished with a precise conception of what is meant by " steadiness " in prices.

This congruity of the miracle with divine truth and grace is the answer to Matthew Arnold's taunt about turning a pen into a pen-wiper or Huxley's about a centaur trotting down Regent Street.

The same appeal was made, more than once, to Urban II.; and the answer was the First Crusade.

The answer is partly that men like St Louis did think that the Crusade was misplaced, and partly that Frederick was really attacked not as a revolted Christian, but as the would-be unifier of Italy, the enemy of the states of the church.

The struggle of papacy and empire paralysed Europe, and even in France itself there were few ready to answer the calls for help which St Louis sent home from Acre.

The one answer was the Shepherds' Crusade, or Crusade of the Pastoureaux - "a religious Jacquerie," as it has been called by Dean Milman.

Doubt was thrown on Charles's authorship in Milton's Eikonoklastes (1649), which was followed almost immediately by a royalist answer, The Princely Pelican.

He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1682, and after ten years' residence obtained a fellowship. In 1699 he was made provost of the college, and in the same year published his Letter in answer to a Book entitled "Christianity not Mysterious," which was recognized as the ablest reply yet written to Toland.

Two words I wrote to Liszt; his answer was the news that preparations were being made for the performance of the work, on the grandest scale that the limited means of Weimar would permit.

Her greatest charm was, however, her pleasant behaviour; for she was "merry in company, ready and quick of answer."

When she lay painfully on her deathbed her son Joseph said to her, "You are not at ease," and her last words were the answer, "I am sufficiently at my ease to die."

But his great strength lay in metaphysical analysis, as was shown in his answer to the objections raised against the appointment of Sir John Leslie to the mathematical professorship (1805).

It was the only worthy answer to Burke that appeared.

So soon as the point of view is clear - that in the Gathas we have firm historical ground on which Zoroaster and his surroundings may rest, that here we have the beginnings of the Zoroastrian religion - then it becomes impossible to answer otherwise than affirmatively every general question as to the historical character of Zoroaster.

A plan which has been found to answer well is to arrange them in cardboard boxes, either with glass tops or in sliding covers, in drawers - the name being placed outside each box and the specimens gummed into the boxes.

Thomas Sherlock declared that " Mr Law was a writer so considerable that he knew but one good reason why his lordship did not answer him."

Law's Case of Reason (1732), in answer to Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation is to a great extent an anticipation of Bishop Butler's famous argument in the Analogy.