Example Sentences

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“Yeh acha game hai,” the young shopkeeper would say, encouraging me to buy whichever title I was appraising.

From The Verge • Aug. 11, 2022

Brian Ellner was appraising the cheese spread at a party in Bellport, N.Y., in April 2018, when Jarrett Olivo walked through the door.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

His degrees from Harvard may have lent breadth to his cultural range but they didn’t deepen his relationship to the art he was appraising.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2019

"It was a matter of letting the round mature," he said, sounding like he was appraising a wine.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 15, 2010

Mrs. Dimblewit looked around as if the bookshop smelled but also like she was appraising it.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega