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    perusing example sentences

    perusing


    1. ’ He replied a moment later perusing the note


    2. We stand for a few minutes perusing the menu hanging in the window


    3. ' Titania wasn't so enamored of what she was perusing that she didn't notice their approaching figures in the reflection of the shop window, but not giving them much thought at first continued her inspection of the display


    4. Floppy nodded eagerly, and a few minutes later, they were in Lickspittle’s Books & Antiquaria, perusing the shelves


    5. The man standing at a tall bookcase, absently perusing an opened book in his hand was not exactly what she had expected


    6. “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


    7. He unrolled the scroll and stood for a long time, perusing its contents


    8. Janelle had been carefully perusing the landscape


    9. If there was no chance of us being together, why waste the time perusing me?


    10. Bill: I say this without the slightest hesitation: ―I told you so!‖ I came to the same conclusions as Michael‘s high-priced San Francisco lawyers just from perusing his trial transcript and I will say again what I said November 25, 2000:

    11. was a disordered stack of sheets he‘d been perusing through before her arrival


    12. Alex was busy perusing some of the information that had been


    13. Today being the last day to see a loved one was something that most would never expect when waking up on any given morning and after sharing breakfast while perusing the newspaper prior to going separate ways until evening


    14. Though he had long been fond of historic Conway’s charming Southern graciousness, which epitomized the typical small town of an era long gone, Wickland seldom found time to spend exploring and casually perusing the antique stores, hometown jewelers, and old-fashioned haberdashery that dotted the tree-lined Main Street


    15. Watching sports or perusing the ‘net, collecting comic books, whatever


    16. Our government functionaries and officials of secret agencies perhaps think that they provide protection to Zulimistan people by perusing these policies


    17. “Just because you saw her photos while perusing history tapes, and fell in love,


    18. Perusing the list, Locke realized how lucky he had gotten


    19. She continued perusing the shelves when she stumbled upon a beautiful yellow gold, diamond earrings with emeralds


    20. They were now seated and she was perusing the menu

    21. found one shop that he enjoyed perusing through: an antiques shop, which had artifacts and relics for sale


    22. ‘I don’t really recall,’ Sabrina lied, perusing the menu and praying that Nicky would stop questioning her about Nathalie


    23. But they don’t seem too interested in perusing it very


    24. They developed the film and then spent several hours perusing the photos


    25. He bought a local newspaper and a chocolate bar in one of the shops; he was peckish as it was all of five minutes since the ‘big breakfast’ He sat in the car park munching the sweet and perusing the local media for clues


    26. In the lounge of Mrs Green’s guesthouse, Robert Simpson sat perusing the telephone


    27. ” Peter took a deep breath, and composed himself before perusing what had been bequeathed to him


    28. “Yes!” was all he answered as he sat back down giving his attention to the map he’d been perusing


    29. He was perusing her body, she knew it was to distract him from his tumultuous thinking and Fern once more considered the words that Lieutenant Rostin had said don't disobey him


    30. So we were constantly perusing the notice boards abounding in South Ken with room vacancies and rents

    31. I was alone, perusing a book I had just bought from the hotel newsstand and vaguely remarked that two gentlemen entered the shop and sat in the booth next to mine


    32. As it happened, he was at the time perusing a web site


    33. Seeing the wisdom of this, Ingrid adjusted her plunging through the grass to something more like a perusing swim, letting Darren scout ahead of her while Scott watched things from behind


    34. Stein says:—'What causes most surprise in perusing the Pentateuch is the silence which it seems to keep respecting the most fundamental and consoling truths


    35. I was standing in the living room of a house that belonged to witches, watching my vampire lover brood about whether or not he was forcibly going to hold me captive, while another vampire stalked me relentlessly in the shadows, and I was fairly certain that a warlock was a floor below us, perusing a book


    36. And then when the repast is over and the tables removed, for the knight to recline in the chair, picking his teeth perhaps as usual, and a damsel, much lovelier than any of the others, to enter unexpectedly by the chamber door, and herself by his side, and begin to tell him what the castle is, and how she is held enchanted there, and other things that amaze the knight and astonish the readers who are perusing his history


    37. She placed one she had been perusing on his hand; he flung it off, and muttered, if she did not give over, he would break her neck


    38. Sebastian, where I found a highly educated brigand chief perusing Caesar's 'Commentaries,' and who deigned to leave off reading to inform me, that unless the next morning, before six o'clock, four thousand piastres were paid into his account at his banker's, at a quarter past six I should have ceased to exist


    39. Some were perusing the article, others making comments and recalling circumstances which substantiated the charges still more


    40. She moved on to perusing the rest of the image

    41. These were Richard’s archives, and she was to spend much of the weekend perusing them


    42. Anyone who’s spent so much as ten minutes listening to Gestalt Therapy (and even its producer, Nordlinger, who usually pops in earplugs after the opening theme and spends the remainder perusing porn) has to have figured out that “Dr


    43. The website also provides all the cheat sheets that follow each strategy chapter, but like most things, the real understanding comes from the reading and understanding of the material, not from perusing the cheat sheets, which are intended to distill the information from the chapter, not to replace it


    44. Stock Trader found himself in his favorite book store, perusing the little investing section


    45. She placed one she had been perusing on his hand; he flung it off, and


    46. He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they beheld other colossal things moving confusedly


    47. There are people who read very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word of honor as to what they are perusing


    48. Perusing the ranked portfolios, you can see that long call strategies are unprofitable for the first six deciles, representing 60% of the sample


    49. Perusing the ranked portfolios, long put strategies were strongly profitable for the first three deciles


    50. And, in this inquiry, without wading through all the documents, which gentlemen can as well understand by perusing them in their chambers as by hearing them read here, I will merely advert to the offensive expressions used by Mr


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    Synonyms for "perusing"

    perusal perusing poring over studying

    "perusing" definitions

    reading carefully with intent to remember