Example Sentences

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Few sublunary powers are, after all, as attainable as an expertise in words; or as a peruser of the Collegiate might put it, it’s a major flex.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Several thoughts encircle the enthralled peruser, as the eighteenth century stylists would also have said, of these documents and books and ledgers.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 10, 2016

An outstanding specimen of the coffee-table book: sumptuous illustrations informatively captioned for the browser, and authoritative essays on government, art, technology, etc., for the peruser.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lightning peruser of the House of Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

This book carries its poyson and malice in it; yet mee thinks the judicious peruser may honestly make use of it in the actions of his life, with advantage.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Dacres, Edward