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Example sentences for: poring

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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.
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?"
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of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school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.
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.
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.