Sentence examples for a cursory one from inspiring English sources

"No more than a cursory" one.

There's no attempt, even a cursory one, to do anything more than hold a tourist camera up to the US's main superpower rival; China unfolds simply as a smattering of postcard-image locations – the Great Wall, the Bird's Nest stadium, Beijing airport – which presumably were part of the price for local co-operation.

But Mr. Palcza's attempt to explore the internal effects of war is a shallow, cursory one.

Scott D. Waddle, conducted only a cursory check, one shorter than would generally be expected before surfacing quickly in a maneuver called an emergency main ballast blow, naval officials said.

Prior to 1900 most industrial companies issued either no reports at all or only extremely cursory ones.

Transactions are cursory, one-click affairs, and I appreciate this!

As a cursory search on Google Images (hard research here, people!) proves, this one, while not in the best of taste, was clearly part of that tendency.

A cursory search for one of them, Joe Thurston, turned up a Prescott News article from June 7, 2016, headlined "Prescott Approves Survivor Benefits for Widow of Wildland Firefighter Joe Thurston".

A cursory overview of one state's 2012 high school biology standards for evolution also exemplifies this lack of emphasis: The student knows evolutionary theory is a scientific explanation for the unity and diversity of life.

For example, the city investigators said state development officials asked for only a cursory background check on Galt, one that would not uncover the relationship its key executives had with Safeway.

These paintings and a more cursory white one are conceived as an ensemble along with two sculptures: large steel bookcases crammed with enormous books made of sheets of lead.