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.

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

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

  • As dubious as that sentiment might at first appear, a cursory look through his fellow participants' answers shows that he's quite right: As far as News Quiz readers are concerned, those are the two activities associated with livestock.

  • And the expression gone with the wind antedated Margaret Mitchell's book--indeed, she so named the book because of the cliché, not the other way round; a cursory check of my Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988--nudge!


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