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The subject is their father, sporting a pencil-thin mustache, his eyebrows cocked, as if he were appraising the carnitas coming out of the kitchen.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2020

The directors were appraising all the availables in Europe when they came upon a Russian exiled in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

The girls were appraising her costume; she felt their eyes and enjoyed the envy in them.

From The Town Traveller by Gissing, George

And she looked at the parson over her glasses as if she were appraising him in a new character.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

Presently he wheeled from the desk and regarded her with disconcerting frankness—as if he were appraising her, point by point, so to speak.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto