Sample Sentences forperuse (editor-reviewed)
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Please peruse this report at your leisure.peruse = read or examine
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She perused the menu while she waited for him to arrive.perused = read
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"As to the reason for your presence here . . . a quality of my faction is curiosity," she says, "and while perusing your records, I saw that there was another error with another one of your simulations." (source)perusing = reading or examining
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The priest takes him to the bookseller and stands in the street, guarding him, while he peruses the shelves. (source)peruses = examines (looks through)
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And as she watched Spencer peruse Kate Spade's leather luggage, Hanna wondered if Spencer was thinking what she was thinking: (source)peruse = examine
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It was bustling with people, but they scored a table at the window and perused the menus. (source)perused = read or examined
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As Hollis perused the menu, I looked out on to the boardwalk, watching the people walk by. (source)perused = read or examined
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He and the other fifth-years spent a considerable part of the final weekend of the Easter break reading all the careers information that had been left there for their perusal. (source)perusal = the act of reading or examining
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...and perusing the newspaper. (source)perusing = reading or examining
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It took only a few seconds to peruse my limited options.† (source)
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He peruses, then signs, stamps or rejects them.† (source)
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Finally, tired of smuggling it into the bathroom for swift perusals, and weary of his deceit, and haunted by the fear that his mother would find the magazine, Jerry had sneaked it out of the house and dropped it into a catchbasin.† (source)
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His professional brethren, each for himself, adopted various hypotheses, more or less plausible, but all dressed out in a perplexing mystery of phrase, which, if it do not show a bewilderment of mind in these erudite physicians, certainly causes it in the unlearned peruser of their opinions.† (source)
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he'd perused the record of my case with the utmost care. (source)perused = read or examined
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His chief delight, however, was found in the perusal of an exceedingly rare and curious book in quarto Gothic—the manual of a forgotten church—the Vigiliae Mortuorum secundum Chorum Ecclesiae Maguntinae. (source)perusal = act of reading or examining
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Only a few haunt the "parlor," perusing a menu of services and a couple of girls. (source)perusing = examining
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