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How to use peruse in a sentence

24 example sentences · verb, noun

Peruse means to examine or consider with care. Example: “I didn't have time to peruse the resturant's menu, so I just ordered some random dish.”

Examples of peruse by meaning

verbTo look over casually; to skim.

  • Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge.2001, Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, →ISBN, page 35
  • The woman perused it briefly and then beamed up at me.2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, →ISBN, page 98
  • “I’m looking at the headlines and perusing around on the internet and I see that this guy came to your show and he brought a friendship bracelet and wants to meet you,” Swift’s mom said in the documentary.2026 July 4, Brittany Spanos, “Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce marry at New York City’s Madison Square Garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

More sentences with peruse

  • I didn't have time to peruse the resturant's menu, so I just ordered some random dish.From the entry random
  • A small number of persons has ever perused Shakespeareanism in its entirety.From the entry Shakespeareanism
  • I've seen tickers peruse beer lists for new beers they haven't tried.2019, Michael Ian Borer, Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry ticker
  • It is impossible to know precisely what he was thinking without perusing his vast legacy of papers.2010, Neal Stephenson, “Atoms of cognition: metaphysics in the Royal Society, 1715–2010”, in Bill Bryson, editor, Seeing Further: The…. From the entry ecumenicism
  • Of course, a more experienced UseNetter would only wish to peruse subsets such as "net.all" or "fa.all".1982 January 19, Scott Kramer, “net.micro”, in net.news.group (Usenet). From the entry Usenetter
  • Gleefully we perused those two copies, noting such achievements as a five-color bacover (counting black).1951 November, Lee Hoffman, “The Ether Jiggles”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 1, page 3. From the entry bacover
  • Nerve—but just here will you oblige by perusing again the quotation with which this story begins?1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New…. From the entry beauty is only skin deep
  • He shows her the page he was perusing.2022 February 1, Melissa de la Cruz, Never After: The Stolen Slippers, volume 2, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN. From the entry scrumptilicious
  • Coldly perusing his surveillance cameras one day, Mr.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in…. From the entry surveillance camera
  • Here, take one of my cards.” “Are you a lawyer, too?” he asked, and then perused her information.2008, Christine Son, Off the Menu, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry off the top of one's head
  • Pulling out a letter from her dorothy bag she beguiled the tediousness of waiting by perusing distraitly its contents.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 95. From the entry Dorothy bag
  • Standing in front of nearly seventy-five people, Francis peruses the gathering made up of village woolers, men and women who work sheep's wool for export.2015, Al DeFilippo, Black Country, Palm Beach Gardens, F.L.: Borrowed Light Productions, →ISBN, page 360. From the entry wooler
  • Playboy had recently become an object of mainstream popularity, a nudie magazine with literary content that smart men and women could peruse without embarrassment.2009 January 25, Ken Johnson, “The Image Is Erotic. But Is It Art?”, in New York Times. From the entry nudie
  • It seems that at least some of them did not entirely relish what they perused, for they went nutbar and the rest is history.2006 September 18, Jaime M. de Castellvi, “Killfile the following people”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet). From the entry nutbar
  • After perusing it for a while, even the most enthusiastic Everester tended to develop the attitude of: 'Let's go and find we can't climb it!1955, Edmund Hillary, “To Everest, 1951”, in High Adventure, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC; republished as High Adventure: The 50th…. From the entry Everester
  • For more iced coffee recipes — from brown sugar Dalgonas to iced caramel lattes — we recommend you peruse the comments section and check out the countless recipes online.2023 June 28, Maxwell Shukuya, “‘I’m Blown Away’: Iced Coffee ‘Fiend’ Shares How To Save Big on Your Summer Coffee Habit”, in Cheapism…. From the entry dalgona
  • Just as in sumō, audiences can immediately determine the relative standing of an actor by perusing the placement and size of the names in a program.2013, Samuel L. Leiter, “Nadai and Nadai Shita”, in Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952–1965, Leiden: Global Oriental, →ISBN…. From the entry sumō
  • Facing the ladies a biretta'd priest appeared to be perusing a little, fat, black, greasy book of prayers which he held aslant so as to catch the light.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, pages 3-4. From the entry biretta'd
  • The oldest girls are eagerly perusing the financial reports, for a certain young man remarked last Sunday night that he had taken a flyer in Q., X. & Z.1906, O. Henry, Man About Town. From the entry take a flyer
  • They are yours if you kill a man for me.” I perused a few of the pages and realized that the herblore set down therein was far beyond my ken.2013, Kevin Hearne, Hunted. From the entry herblore
  • When looking at TVs for instance you might look for a particular brand, peruse the definition and colors on the screen, and maybe even have a fiddle with the remote.1998, Dean Ormandy, Conquering Computers, page 74. From the entry fiddle

Meaning of peruse

  1. verb To examine or consider with care.
  2. verb To read completely.
  3. verb To look over casually; to skim.

Full definition of peruse

Questions about peruse in a sentence

How do you use peruse in a sentence?
Peruse is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I didn't have time to peruse the resturant's menu, so I just ordered some random dish.”
What is a short sentence with peruse?
“Coldly perusing his surveillance cameras one day, Mr.”
What does peruse mean?
Peruse means to examine or consider with care.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peruse (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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