Sentence examples for Cursory knowledge from inspiring English sources

She doesn't use a computer and has only cursory knowledge of her cellphone.

Such certainty comes easily to anyone who has a cursory knowledge of football's labyrinthine politics.

I had a cursory knowledge of the historical struggle between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

Schmoke and Ward have flair and credentials, but neither has more than a cursory knowledge of the Olympic committee.

ANYONE with a cursory knowledge of TV crime dramas knows the difference between the English and American legal systems.

Students have only a cursory knowledge of film techniques and the workings of standard animation software like Flash, Dreamweaver and Photoshop when they begin.

Most political pundits – and anyone with even a cursory knowledge of our political discourse – recognize that our country has fallen victim to tribalism.

At the same time, he said, the documentary is directed at people with perhaps only a cursory or impressionistic knowledge of the Cuban leader.

"Is London good, Joel?" my friends back home ask me, in their quaint way, with their funny little accents and their cursory-at-best knowledge about metropolitan things like Ubers and guacamole, and I tell them "Yes," I say.

"Is London good, Joel?" my friends back home ask me, in their quaint way, with their funny little accents and their cursory-at-best knowledge about metropolitan things like Ubers and guacamole, and I tell them yes, I say, it takes an hour to get anywhere and all the burgers have pulled pork on them, and you pay to take a lift to the top of the tallest skyscrapers, and look down but not jump.

The title of John Keegan's anecdotal and often cursory new book "Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy From Napoleon to Al-Qaeda" is highly misleading.