Example Sentences

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The federal office said it had scrutinized medical records, testimony and interviews that “showcase how severely delayed Kira Johnson’s diagnosis and care was.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

Secretary of Administration Lyd McDermid defended Youngkin in a letter to Mary Bauer, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, after the organization had scrutinized the voter removal.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023

Scientists had scrutinized how vegetation reclaims places stripped bare by mining or other human activities or by natural forces such as volcanoes and receding glaciers.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2023

In the first months of her undergraduate acting program, she said, a professor had scrutinized her look, listened to her accent and decided that Shakespeare was not for her.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021

I had scrutinized each face eagerly, but when the last passenger had crossed the gangway I had been reluctantly compelled to assume that my friends, for some reason or other, had not come.

From "The Pomp of Yesterday" by Hocking, Joseph