appraising

How To Use appraising In A Sentence

• Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.
• That's part of his plan to make a living when he retires from appraising real estate.
• When appraising the films for pacing, however, it was decided the second film had enough tension without the arachnophobic scene, while the final film needed an extra dollop of Frodo. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Lessons from Lord of the Rings, Part 5
• Has anyone ever done a serious study on the economic impact of drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution, crime, divorce, pollution, economic disparity, and psychological illness caused by a capitalist society in appraising its efficiency? Letters to the Editor
• The campaign covers TV, radio, print and ambient media, with the message that the newspaper is worth re-appraising.
• In addition to these findings, the discovery – by Danish scientists a few years ago – that the last ice age ended with astonishing rapidity has also played a key role in reappraising the recolonisation of Britain. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age
• Elaine looked behind her into her own living room as if she were appraising it. DANSVILLE
• The practised glance flicked over her once again, appraising her in a different way. COMPULSION
• But to my way of thinking, meta-analysis provides a more important secondary benefit of critically appraising the quality of the data entered into its review.
• The blond man had nodded a greeting to her, and Carol had been aware of his appraising gaze.