How To Use Poring over In A Sentence
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A company that has auditors poring over its accounts is unpopular at any time.
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Homeowners and businessmen spent an anguished day poring over maps trying to determine the extent of damage to properties and livelihoods.
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Carl had been poring over the pages of a road atlas.
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The months spent poring over bridal magazines, traipsing through wedding dress shops, visiting caterers and choosing stationery can take their toll.
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The local church was full of well-heeled people poring over leaflets about the possible dangers of electromagnetic radiation.
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We need not look for ‘proof’ by poring over the dusty records of the meticulous pillagers, marauders, and savvy tradesmen.
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They are poring over the shifting electoral background thrown up by the general election.
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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).
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Colourful multitudes thronged the traffic-congested streets, poring over programmes, posters and booking kits.
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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
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When Bitton is not thinking about politics or plugging his documentary, he's poring over ancient manuscripts, books and articles.
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But her adoration goes beyond poring over pictures in magazines and playing their albums.
The Sun
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She was poring over an old map of the area.
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‘You can call the agents tomorrow,’ said Graham, poring over his to-do list, all ticks and crossings out.
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The only danger is you may end up spending more time fiddling with buttons and poring over data than you do outdoors.
The Sun
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And the born-free freedom fighter has been poring over Mugabe's speeches from the past decade in preparation for a paper on the history of Zimbabwe's civil society movement from 2000 to
Guardian Online
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I remember taking the album and poring over it, examining it for every detail.
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The local church was full of well-heeled people poring over leaflets about the possible dangers of electromagnetic radiation.
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The startlingly weird style of some of Japan's teenagers, which is proving as controversial as punk style in the 70s, has fashion pundits across the globe poring over their teeny-bopper magazines for inspiration.
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You will not find me poring over the General Instruction of the Roman Missal late at night, wondering if padre elevated the host high enough.
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He is also reluctant to have rivals poring over his books.
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Homeowners and businessmen spent an anguished day poring over maps trying to determine the extent of damage to properties and livelihoods.
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Last July, months before most Vermonters had heard the word tritium, Gundersen was poring over a Nuclear Regulatory Commission report when a mention of underground pipes at Vermont Yankee caught his attention.
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While poring over our numerous checklists, aviating, navigating and communicating, we quickly found out the latest in a series of bad news: our previously in-the-green auxiliary brakes were now in the red - not good.
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Now the critics are poring over his field placings.
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As archaeologists we need sometimes to slow down, to stop endlessly poring over maps and databases trying to wrest hidden meaning from them.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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On the ground, NASA engineers poring over images of that chipped heat shield and some tiles, and the leading edge of the left wing seen there, which was hit ever so slightly with a micrometeor yesterday.
CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2006
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The local church was full of well-heeled people poring over leaflets about the possible dangers of electromagnetic radiation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many a sweet-bosomed girl and bright-browed boy, poring over high-school textbooks, little dreams that I made that higher education possible by my corn demonstration at
Chapter 1
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Mick Wilson suggests a strategy of active reading that means poring over material three times.
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And there is naturally also a limit to how many hours they can be poring over their books after many hours at school and three hours of homework.
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As archaeologists we need sometimes to slow down, to stop endlessly poring over maps and databases trying to wrest hidden meaning from them.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Ian McGeechan and his cohorts of coaches will no doubt spend countless hours in a darkened room poring over this video-nasty; let's hope they can work the oracle before the visit to Rome in a fortnight.
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She once spent an entire morning poring over a mail-order catalogue.
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At heart, it is a family love story, and much time is spent poring over old pictures.
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You could spend hours poring over the strips, and still find new things to see.
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One colleague recalled that he might be found during a quiet moment in his office poring over a text on Japanese archaeology or Ethiopian land tenure practices.
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But one class was still full of students, many still poring over math formulas written on the whiteboard.
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He is also reluctant to have rivals poring over his books.
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She once spent an entire morning poring over a mail-order catalogue.
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His lawyers are poring over the small print in the contract.
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The reference to "overstudy" refers to the evenings young Thomas spent poring over medical textbooks after he came home from work, until madness took hold.
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It is a kind of reading that invites poring over the visual to ponder spatial and material decisions.
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She went past the guest rooms where visitors rested, past the solaria and the chambers where students sat poring over old scrolls and freshly penned books.
Dalamar the Dark
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In the late 1950s, Lexie Sinclair arrives in London, falls crashingly in love with magazine editor Innes Kent, and plunges into a vivid, vital world of art, sex, G&Ts and late nights spent poring over page proofs.
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
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The local church was full of well-heeled people poring over leaflets about the possible dangers of electromagnetic radiation.
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This gentleman has got a smattering of physic, and I am afraid tampers with his own constitution, by means of Brookes’s Practice of Physic, and some dispensatories, which he is continually poring over.
Travels through France and Italy
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During this postcollege period of experimental cookery, I passed endless hours poring over both volumes of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Upper-Crust Gratins
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Once back home, he'd spend hours in his room poring over those recordings.
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One colleague recalled that he might be found during a quiet moment in his office poring over a text on Japanese archaeology or Ethiopian land tenure practices.
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I, too, began reading poetry, or, as my grandmother expressed it, poring over doggrel trash ....
Punin and Baburin
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But her adoration goes beyond poring over pictures in magazines and playing their albums.
The Sun
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Many happy hours may be spent poring over the 120,000 calculations in a currency and a system of weights and measures long since discarded
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After hours poring over the documents I think it entirely justifiable to argue that one man acted as an agent provocateur.
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The local church was full of well-heeled people poring over leaflets about the possible dangers of electromagnetic radiation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I still haven't found the dress but spend most of my lunch hours poring over wedding magazines trying to find it.
The Sun
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The expats were also poring over the details of an alleged scam defrauding the city's wealthiest individuals.
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The expats were also poring over the details of an alleged scam defrauding the city's wealthiest individuals.
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On those occasions when the pressing duties of spinster auntdom prevent me from poring over any given discussion in detail, it is my policy to more or less rely on the commentariat to keep a civil tongue in its head, or at the very least refrain from total jerkbag asswipery.
Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments
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They went to Bali together last month, and I am certain not too much time was spent poring over Bible passages there.
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She spent weeks hunkered under a microfilm reader, poring over six months of newspapers.
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Tax work, for example, is mainly advisory and involves interpreting law and figures rather than poring over a calculator all day.
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Just beyond the good "sister" stood a young man, poring over a piece of paper, which had the appearance of a medical prescription: a spirited-looking youth, whose harmonious and intellectual cast of features was heightened to rare beauty by richly mellow coloring, and the silken curves of a beard and moustache unprofaned by a razor, -- curves softly traced above the fresh, rubious lips, and gracefully deepening about the cheeks and chin, -- curves that disappear forever when the civilized barbarism of shaving has been accepted.
Fairy Fingers A Novel
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The classwork involved poring over fake bank records and tax returns, interviewing mock suspects, and tailing an "embezzler" as he walked across campus carrying a sack of poker chips - all in hopes that some students may decide they want to do that kind of thing for real.
The Seattle Times
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The only danger is you may end up spending more time fiddling with buttons and poring over data than you do outdoors.
The Sun
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Instead of poring over social studies, Jake took a pair of weights off a laundry room shelf.
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In the days of Nad Al Sheba, at a typical race, men milled around the floodlit track in flowing white dishdashas and head scarves while women in black abayas sat cross-legged on the lawn that embraced the track, poring over racing forms.
All the Sheikh’s Horses
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Williams-Sonoma Inc. and AnnTaylor Stores Corp., among others, are poring over their leases and dispatching staff to track store closures that trigger "cotenancy clauses.
Empty Mall Stores Trigger Rent Cuts
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Long were the hours spent poring over the maps they thoughtfully provided.
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She sat poring over an outspread map.
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Erin was poring over a huge book that had been open under the side table under a dim red desk lamp.
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On one of those seemingly endless summer days he was poring over his books in the library.
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True, skepticism had been spawned, and throughout Western Europe grave and dedicated men were poring over charters, deeds, and cartularies, and casting a jaundiced eye on those monkish tales that had done service for history for nearly a thousand years.
Amateurs
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We need not look for ‘proof’ by poring over the dusty records of the meticulous pillagers, marauders, and savvy tradesmen.
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Then he began poring over tax forms from various conservative nonprofits and aggregating the data about fund-raising and expenditures.
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In The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Algonquin, $18.95, Bailey explains how she became fascinated with the creature, studying its habits, taking comfort in its routines and poring over gastropod literature for snail-related arcana.
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It will be a speedread compared to the MPs currently poring over the blueprint for expenses reform, published this week by Sir Christopher, pictured below.
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When ecologists started poring over field research and peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the circumboreal region, they made a startling discovery, Mr. Kallick explains.
Todd Wilkinson: Will Climate Talks Give Trees the Brush Off?
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They watched the video on a large screen and spent hours poring over every detail.
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I still haven't found the dress but spend most of my lunch hours poring over wedding magazines trying to find it.
The Sun
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Quick Nick Jones sat in his cabin, poring over maps of large expanses of ocean, dotted with spits of land and islands.
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Models sat cross-legged on the floor, smoking and poring over The Daily, Fashion Week's quotidian rag.
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His lawyers are poring over the small print in the contract.
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More sedate visitors will enjoy poring over family treasures, such as old photos and maps, watching gauchos at work, or reading a book under the austral summer's midnight sun.
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I remember spending hours in the library poring over orders of the Court.
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One colleague recalled that he might be found during a quiet moment in his office poring over a text on Japanese archaeology or Ethiopian land tenure practices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Robin spent many lunch hours poring over her math assignments.
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They chat to the local fishermen who tip them off to net snags, and spend long hours poring over the charts.
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I spent hours in libraries, poring over microfilms and data and also travelled to Ayodhya.
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At heart, it is a family love story, and much time is spent poring over old pictures.
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