Example Sentences

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"As I was leafing through the manuscript, the poem struck me as an odd version of Sonnet 116," the university researcher explained.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

The filmmaker was leafing through a newspaper while writing “Batman Begins” and came across a photo of Murphy from “28 Days Later.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024

Around 1990, Mr. Broughton was leafing through a friend’s record collection when the name “Lavender Country” caught his attention.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

There was a moment, before around 2010, when Istanbul felt especially hip, at least to those of us whose main engagement was leafing through the weekend supplements at a remove of a thousand miles.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018

Mrs. Murry looked up from a copy of an English sci-entific magazine through which she was leafing.

From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle