Example sentences for: cursory

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

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

  • 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.

  • What distinguishes Dunlap from his colleagues is that he takes pride in his toughness, expressing only cursory regret for having cashiered thousands of his workers.

  • A cursory analysis of the data suggests that the intron distribution in both SSU and LSU rRNAs is significantly clustered (in particular, the LSU rRNA) and the statistical analysis bears this out.


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