Example sentences for: cursory

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

  • But, according to a cursory search done today, the Annenberg Foundation announced gifts totaling $1.

  • 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

  • After a cursory examination of Ressam's car, the INS agents allowed Ressam to board the ferry.

  • 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.

  • 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").


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