Example sentences for: poring

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

  • "After poring over dozens of colors and styles," Tilton reports, "the fussy fellas finally agreed on over $8,000 worth of luxury linens and a dreamy down-filled comforter and duvet cover for Leo's master bedroom."

  • No one expects that Clinton will spend a lot of time in carrels poring over his papers, but even so, he has a good track record of making the most of the stacks.

  • She might quite reasonably prefer spending a few hours a week tutoring a high-school kid, to spending them poring over spreadsheets in her office.

  • The best disclosure site, FECInfo, puts at everyone's fingertips information that used to require trips to the FEC office in Washington and hours of poring over dim microfiches.

  • Though the two never met, Treadwell would often pass the long, quiet hours in the great editor's office, poring over Mr. Shawn's marked-up manuscripts of New Yorker pieces.


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