How To Use Perusing In A Sentence
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The service is meant to duplicate the and feel of perusing a printed publication.
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One woman stretched out on the divan lounge, thoughtfully perusing a scroll.
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Thus the brother, perusing the books of many saints like a clever bee, culled the flowers of divine quotations.
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Readers who are accustomed to perusing statistical documents know what the set of numbers in the parentheses means.
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Like us, they're avid readers and enjoy perusing many periodicals, magazines and both local papers.
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As I was perusing the list, one title jumped out at me: "The Glass of '93 Blossoms Early.
Mining Michael Jackson
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The unsmiling person behind the counter, perusing your paperwork, has the power to destroy your life with one stamp in your passport.
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Earlier I found myself perusing my mobile, looking to see who I could call on to fill my need.
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We've been busily buzzing around the city on weekends, perusing the papers and walking around the city, looking at potential apartments.
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I found myself having a different kind of experience reading this work than I have ever had perusing a materia medica.
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Across the street, the fat man sporting aviator shades and a floppy straw hat loitered behind a calabash tree perusing the Bermuda Sun.
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While perusing the menu, Ritchie offered us an Elvis drink, a vodka and grape drink shooter.
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a Jews-harp; that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; - these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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After perusing the biology library at Berkeley regarding radiobiology, I found that there was much to learn about the field.
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It was worth perusing some of the other lists, as they refreshed my historical memory a bit.
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Their backstop is a fee justification process, which is written and administered by other solicitors perusing documentation from the solicitor involved.
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With that in mind, I generally spend a whole lot of my time perusing news sources frequented by contrarians.
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He had a wonderful time perusing all the bookshelves and bought several books.
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The material chosen from which to make the broom, after perusing the garden for likely candidates was the lavender, Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’ that was growing nearby.
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Therefore, both dry and hungry souls, pot and trenchermen, fully enjoying those books, perusing, quoting them in their merry conventicles, and observing the great mysteries of which they treat, shall gain a singular profit and fame; as in the like case was done by Alexander the Great with the books of prime philosophy composed by Aristotle.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Upon opening the door Jack was surprised to find Chris sitting on the couch perusing a medical journal.
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We settled back in the covered patio area and had a cocktail as an aperitif, while perusing the menu.
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a jew's-harp: that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; -- these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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Officials of the company are perusing the deal.
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One free day was spent in the capital city, perusing some castle and partaking of the odd pint along the Royal Mile.
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Well, I went on perusing the work, and found almost at once that it was what is called a catchpenny, and depended altogether, for its success, upon the fame and reputation of its predecessor of nearly the same name.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Still, even teetotalers should enjoy themselves here, though maybe not as much as aspiring wine geeks, who could easily spend the meal perusing the extensive, user-friendly list.
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I should have left well enough alone, but no, I call the bitchy parent back who had just left a perticularly nasty message on my voicemail while I was taking a most lovely of lovely steamy hot bath while perusing a 2 foot deep stack of National Geographics.
Madrigle Diary Entry
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Having built a localised RSS engine for starters, but being a big fan in dev, of local structured blogging, microformats and the like, I have been perusing alot of search results from feed readers and search engines, and wondering why I couldnt 'BLOG THIS.
Archive 2006-06-01
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But who can deny perusing the headlines, even thumbing through the pages, of the occasional supermarket tabloid while waiting to ring up our groceries?
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We have spent some time perusing your family website and found it most interesting.
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Of all things mechanical, he loved sailboats the most, planing into the wind with a sheet of canvas, a centerboard and a tiller, which he picked up from perusing the Horatio Hornblower novels.
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At the end of the long room, a grey haired sixty year old man is tapping his desk with his fingers whilst perusing a wad of documents.
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For some less patient diners this can actually be a blessing as it cuts down the time spent perusing the options.
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He claimed that I had a knack for finding materials from among the education, business, and financial journals I was charged with perusing to buttress the arguments he was making for budgetary process married to planning, something a bit wifty and over the top in those days.
I scan 2 photographs from the 1970s.
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Remarkable, too, are the long, narrow proportions of the painting, resembling a filmstrip that we scan from left to right, slowly perusing each of three vignettes.
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Perusing this delicate yet powerful little book, we can't help but admire the shapeliness, the eloquence, the stylishness, and the incisiveness of the essay it contains.
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I smile winningly, perusing the ' bill of fayre'.
Times, Sunday Times
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As far as Agents, again the characters are mostly drabbed down, the final issue of the mini left a bad taste in my mouth and then perusing through the first issue and seeing them turning over bad guys to the dragon who eats them...
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Her eyes sidled up to Herr Bormann, who was perusing his fork, with such intent that she wished she could unsay her words.
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'In perusing these old catalogues one cannot help being astonished at the sudden and great increase of books; and when one reflects that a great, perhaps the greater, part of them no longer exists, this perishableness of human labours will excite the same sensations as those which arise in the mind when one reads in a church-yard the names and titles of persons long since mouldered into dust.
The Book-Hunter at Home
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I have just finished perusing your latest note, the one containing a bizarre forty-sixth move dealing with the removal of my queen from a square on which it has not rested for eleven days.
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A good case can be made against foreign aid simply by perusing the official documents and reports published by government lending agencies themselves.
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As a self-reflexive examination of the writing process, the author researches tools through the ages by visiting the library and perusing through historical documents.
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Perusing the liberal press, I am struck by the mixture of utter confusion, self-absorption, cynicism and sheer ignorance which characterizes the commentary on the war in Afghanistan.
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I was perusing the outdoors section of a large chain bookstore not long ago and I was struck by something that perhaps some of you have also noticed: hunting books are disappearing.
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I grabbed a schedule and a name badge and was invited to sit down with two women perusing their swag.
Shaking the Family Tree
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'Serena nox'; and upon perusing again what I have writ in this paper, I finde that I have out of the customariness of that expression my self near the beginning said, And that most serene night, &c.
Andrew Marvell
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In perusing the popular culture of the time -- and there is no better psychogram of an era -- I noticed that beyond the Bomb, the Reds and Aliens, there was a greater terror, one lurking in their midst: Teenagers.
Jason Pinter: Books Uncovered -- Four Books You'll Want to Read
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They observe a kind of partial fast in the morning, knocking back a single espresso while standing at the counter and perusing Corriere della Sera, allowing themselves a few bites of brioche con marmellata, so as to enhance the pleasure of their midday pasta and meat, their broccoletta rabi, pollo a la cacciatore, penne amatriciana, spaghetti al mare.
The Italian Summer
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Sure, even the most ornery fusspot will come across something he likes when perusing the coverage, but for the most part the stuff that emerges seems to fall under one of three categories:
Archive 2010-09-01
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His reflections on that, his life, his ongoing dialysis treatments and his general outlook on the world are well worth perusing.
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Unable to refrain from perusing the complete canvass before him, he saw that her flawlessly pedicured feet were nestled in muted gold strappy sandals.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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I was perusing the latest issue of one of those male magazines, you know the type - glossy, cover shots of half naked nubile females and banner headlines screaming guarantees of hitherto unpossessed sexual prowess and financial muscle.
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Still, even teetotalers should enjoy themselves here, though maybe not as much as aspiring wine geeks, who could easily spend the meal perusing the extensive, user-friendly list.
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As the Edmonton festival has grown to more than 150 companies presenting their magnum opi, perusing the tome that is the Fringe programme has become akin to unraveling the Gordian knot.
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The buck drew a newspaper from his pocket and set about perusing it very diligently.
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As with every Lonely Planet book, a big part of the fun is perusing the many fascinating sidebars, such as the brief description of curling, one of Canada's national sports ( "loosely defined as shuffleboard on ice") - every town in the region has a curling club - or their concise sketch of the three main highways that run through the Yukon.
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An average person sits with hands at or near an alphanumeric keyboard in perusing material on the Internet, and is thus equally in a position at each moment to write or to read, both of which are normally carried out by means of the same screen.
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A little further on, a hard – featured old man with a deeply – wrinkled face, was intently perusing a lengthy will with the aid of a pair of horn spectacles: occasionally pausing from his task, and slily noting down some brief memorandum of the bequests contained in it.
Sketches by Boz
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If you are perusing the buffet table, skip the items that are loaded with calories and fat, such as dressings and gravy.
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In fact, after perusing it a bit, I think I see a little of what laika was upset about back in the Easter discussion now ...
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He spent hours perusing the catalog.
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I was perusing the latest issue of one of those male magazines, you know the type - glossy, cover shots of half naked nubile females and banner headlines screaming guarantees of hitherto unpossessed sexual prowess and financial muscle.
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When reading the annual reports, spend more time in the footnotes than perusing the letters from president and portfolio manager.
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Yacht chandlers and websites are worth perusing for clever space-saving ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leaning against the wall she reached forward to pull the vertical blinds apart, her eyes perusing the gaudy blues, pinks and yellows of the buzzing neon signboards that seemed to reproduce overnight along the strip.
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That's BRILLIANT, he bugled later, snout buried in the spoils, envisioning the post-operative Schmeichel recuperating at a luxury Swiss spa retreat, perusing the papers in his waffle slippers while sipping a restorative Schmackos® smoothie.
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