cursory

in a sentence

The troopers made a cursory examination of the vehicle and its environs for signs of foul play and then departed.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

He gave the photo a cursory glance. "I am sorry. I have never seen him."  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

Whenever immigration authorities make even cursory attempts to enforce a 1986 law that allows employers to be fined up to $10,000 for each illegal immigrant they hire, businesses — onion farmers in Georgia, meatpacking firms in the Midwest — bitterly complain.  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

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) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

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) H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897

Even a cursory glance through Da Vinci's journals revealed why the luminary was as notorious for his lack of follow-through as he was famous for his brilliance.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

I noticed these objects cursorily only — in them there was nothing extraordinary.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

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) Steve Lopez, The Soloist, 1995

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) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

Neither of the girls gave me more than a cursory one-two, which didn't bother me.  (source) Junot Diaz, Drown, 1997

He swiftly switched out the first slide for the second, and then glanced at it cursorily.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

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) Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima, 1972

Nine worlds out of eight thousand or more worlds explored-however cursorily-since the Hegira.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989