scanning
- present participle of scan.
Example Sentences
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Scanning this weekend’s headlines, these plot devices feel more like diagnosis than fantasy.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
Scanning my bookcase, which contains a few hundred volumes, it occurred to me that none of them would make sense if Sister Albertine hadn’t grown me into a reader.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
Scanning the spice rack, I added garlic powder, onion powder and a very, very generous crank of black pepper, and the butter thickened under the stir of a spoonful of flour.
From Salon • Aug. 26, 2025
Scanning the rubble, Ali caught sight of a pink, soot-covered pair of girls’ tracksuit bottoms, hanging from a steel girder jutting out of the heap.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024
Scanning the papers as he ate breakfast, he turned to the New York Times—and suddenly leaped from the chair.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
