Example sentences for: cursory

How can you use “cursory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One is given to wonder how manufacturers of other staple consumer products manage to come up with identical packaging (say, 1 pint, 10 fluidounces or 2 pounds 13 ounces) and identical pricing on supermarket shelves without being in collusion; even the most cursory view of college dictionary publishing at once reveals a most extraordinary example of the workings of “market forces”: no publisher wants to be the first to break the $20 barrier; the Indexed edition of the Random House is the first to touch that mystical figure.

  • There's only a cursory description of the poster, but I smell string bikini.

  • In this case, she, not an independent counsel, supervised the operation and the probes, and she settled for cursory answers.

  • Even the most cursory look at back issues of Hustler confirms that the filmmakers seriously misrepresent its content.

  • On the other hand, many social scientists, myself included, find the NIS studies of such limited value that we rarely use the data or even reference the studies beyond a cursory mention that they have been conducted.


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