How To Use poring over In A Sentence
- A company that has auditors poring over its accounts is unpopular at any time.
- Homeowners and businessmen spent an anguished day poring over maps trying to determine the extent of damage to properties and livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
- Carl had been poring over the pages of a road atlas.
- The months spent poring over bridal magazines, traipsing through wedding dress shops, visiting caterers and choosing stationery can take their toll.
- The local church was full of well-heeled people poring over leaflets about the possible dangers of electromagnetic radiation. Times, Sunday Times
- We need not look for ‘proof’ by poring over the dusty records of the meticulous pillagers, marauders, and savvy tradesmen.
- They are poring over the shifting electoral background thrown up by the general election.
- This week school leavers are poring over those pull-outs in the newspapers giving the official lists of vacancies at British universities for everything from accommodation management to youth studies (I'm not making it up).
- Colourful multitudes thronged the traffic-congested streets, poring over programmes, posters and booking kits.
- In the past, the President notoriously spent immense amounts of time poring over the, leading one exasperated congressman to describe her as a "fussbudget" (defined by the American Heritage dictionary as a "person who fusses over trifles. Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
