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Example sentences for: cursory
How can you use “cursory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There's only a cursory description of the poster, but I smell string bikini.
Alas, the column permits only 400 words for each letter and response, so I necessarily take an approach that might generously be called concise but is frequently called (via reader e-mail) cursory (actually, "cursory, you idiot").
There are many other instances of the misuses of citational evidence, not only by users of dictionaries but by lexicographers themselves: there is no way, using the citational materials at present appearing in dictionaries as prima facie evidence, that one would be justified in assuming that a broad statistical segment of English speakers is thereby represented; even the most cursory examination of entries in the OED (which I assume to be the source of Graham's information) will rapidly, ineluctably lead the observer to realize that
The editorial, which is pegged to the Ron Fitzsimmons controversy, slams journalists for ignoring the truth about partial-birth abortion: Even a cursory investigation would have shown that the procedure is much more common than its defenders claimed.
In this case, she, not an independent counsel, supervised the operation and the probes, and she settled for cursory answers.