Example Sentences

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Throughout Mexico, relatives and acquaintances of the missing have been poring over images, both hopeful and fearful of recognizing an object.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

Lawyers, bondholders and banking analysts have been poring over the bond documentation to see if it allowed for the wipe-out.

From Reuters • Mar. 23, 2023

Since 2019, scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research have been poring over every detail of Massive Attack's last tour.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2021

I have been poring over 19th-century church records for several years now and such casual cruelty from leaders of the faith still takes my breath away.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2019

They have been poring over books long enough to have a holiday; and, by the living Jove, they shall have it.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee