Use "cursorily" in a sentence

1. He looked through the collection of tools, assembled in a separate crate, and taking out a tape measure went about taking more specific measurements than those he'd made cursorily the day before

2. ‘No time for that now – we’ve got to get away before that Semtex explodes – move quickly!’ Rory snapped cursorily, hacking away their plastic manacles with a fishing knife and then they all piled into the speedboat hastily

3. He tossed them down one by one on the table as he examined them cursorily

4. This time he placed it in the corner of his mouth while cursorily running a hand through his short hair

5. He was unclothed, obviously had been cursorily washed and his hair was slicked back as if with brilliantine

6. He told me to open both bags and he searched cursorily from the sides

7. He had committed foul sins, but had been absolved of them all, most recently this morning, by the bishop of Shiring, who was now standing next to his father the earl, armed with a vicious-looking mace – priests were not supposed to shed blood, a rule they acknowledged cursorily by using blunt weapons on the battlefield

8. She cursorily signified the direction of the church, and went on, d'Urberville saying that he would see them again, in case they should be still unsuccessful in their search for shelter, of which he had just heard

9. Nevertheless, we will remark cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the hideous assassin of the towns

10. I noticed these objects cursorily only—in them there was nothing extraordinary

11. Good Lord! is this the road that Jonah went? The roof is about twelve feet high, and runs to a pretty sharp angle, as if there were a regular ridge-pole there; while these ribbed, arched, hairy sides, present us with those wondrous, half vertical, scimetar-shaped slats of whalebone, say three hundred on a side, which depending from the upper part of the head or crown bone, form those Venetian blinds which have elsewhere been cursorily mentioned

12. Of the other two I will speak only cursorily

13. I was particularly struck by an idea at the end of the article, and which, unfortunately, you have touched upon too cursorily