Example sentences for: poring

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

  • Over the next decade, I made my biographer's rounds, like the postman deterred neither by sleet nor snow--nor by occasional emanations of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school classmates, cousins, friends, and lovers of my famously peripatetic subject; driving Avis rental cars into the remotest suburbs of Los Angeles and flying into Buffalo, N.Y., in pursuit of letters in private hands.

  • There are very good reasons for this: Scheck was probably the smartest of the defense lawyers, and he was certainly the hardest-working; he spent weeks poring over complex evidence that other defense lawyers didn't bother with.

  • 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.

  • This Sunday, as I was poring over my outspread paper, an older woman came over to me and said, "Would you mind if three of us joined you at this table?"

  • 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.


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