Example Sentences

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A film crew from Amazon Prime, making a documentary for next year, who were poring over every moment as the sacred smoke coiled up over the apple trees in Gloucestershire.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

Search teams were poring over two sites on Friday — an office building with a medical center inside, and a concert hall near an outdoor recreation area and park, where mothers with children often stroll.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2022

They were poring over details, analyzing everything Erika said or did to piece it all together.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2021

Soon the four scientists were poring over the sequence, a series of 30,000 genetic letters that no one had seen arranged in exactly this order before.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2020

While Sir Lawrence was pondering whether to chance taking Crick’s mind off his thesis, Francis and I were poring over the copy that Peter brought in after lunch.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson