were perusing
- past progressive of peruse.
Example Sentences
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The spat played out as most attendees were perusing a football-field-size hall filled with guns as far as the eye could see.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2019
Nearby were Ian and Joy Massif, 72 and 71, respectively, who were perusing everything but the French wines on offer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2019
While the couple were perusing synonyms for “restaurant,” Jodi came across the word “bistro” and looked up the word.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
Other listeners were perusing the merchandise table, which was selling copies of both “Moby-Dick” and Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Why Read Moby-Dick?”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014
Should we not have all desired, at that time, to be the heroes whose real or fictitious history we were perusing?
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de
