leaf through

Idioms  

1. Turn pages, as in browsing or searching for something. For example, There she sat, leafing through the various catalogs. This expression employs leaf in the sense of “turn over the leaves of a book,” a usage dating from the mid-1600s.

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leaf through

Meanwhile, carbon dioxide enters the leaf through tiny openings called stomata.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

You can leaf through the full list here, with the latest additions shown in bold.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

His first wife, Ivana Trump said she had seen him occasionally leaf through a collection of Hitler's speeches that a friend had given him.

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2023

"Ah, this is it," he says as he begins to leaf through.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023

I pick up a notepad like the one he keeps in his pocket and leaf through it, wondering if there might be some clue in it, in this room, as to what happened to him.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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