Sample Sentences for
cursory
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    The troopers made a cursory examination of the vehicle and its environs for signs of foul play and then departed.  (source)
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    He gave the photo a cursory glance. "I am sorry. I have never seen him."  (source)
    cursory = quick (not careful or with attention to detail)
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    Neither of the girls gave me more than a cursory one-two, which didn't bother me.  (source)
    cursory = hasty (quick)
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    We were subjected to a very cursory pat-down in the prison lobby by a male officer before being admitted through the barred gate to the main prison area.  (source)
    cursory = quick (not thorough)
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    I noticed these objects cursorily only — in them there was nothing extraordinary.  (source)
    cursorily = in a hasty manner
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    After a cursory glance at the rest of the rooms, from basement to attic, we came to the conclusion that the dining room contained any effects which might belong to the Count.  (source)
    cursory = quick (without attention to detail)
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    But excepting two odd incidents, the circumstances of his stay until the extraordinary day of the club festival may be passed over very cursorily.  (source)
    cursorily = quickly (without attention to details)
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    She gave a cursory nod to the group before her gaze fell on Max, sitting small and hunched at the table.  (source)
    cursory = hasty and without much attention
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    Nine worlds out of eight thousand or more worlds explored-however cursorily-since the Hegira.†  (source)
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    My mother took one last cursory glance at her brood then led the way up the goat path; we called the path from our home to the bridge the goat path because when we ran to meet our father after his day's work he said we looked like goats, cabroncitos, or cabritos.  (source)
    cursory = hasty and without attention to detail
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    He and Hiro glance cursorily at each other's armaments.†  (source)
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    Nathaniel gives the hall a cursory look, but his gaze is fixed on the stage, with the musicians filing back in from the dressing room.  (source)
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    One or two of the doctors and nurses in white coats greet him cursorily as he walks through a large room toward a desk.†  (source)
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