Sentence examples for but not reading from inspiring English sources

I loved maths and drawing, but not reading.

That summer, nothing short of a bonfire could have delivered me from the utter dilettantism into which I slipped: we commonly assert that reading is a wholesome activity, but not reading Wodehouse.

Its frosting is sugar and cream, it's soft and warm, you can eat some!" Meanwhile, Adira sat stiffly, staring at her book but not reading; my uncle had pulled her legs onto his lap and was kneading her calves.

By rote but not reading, Mr. Duncan replied, "Mr. Chairman, I would like to answer the committee's questions, but on the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question based on the protection afforded me under the Constitution of the United States".

For the late cohort, we find that early gains persist through third grade in math but not reading, and for boys but not for girls.

Similar tests suggested that her right hemisphere controls writing, but not reading, speech, or the neural functions that allow people to find the right word for an object.

They can speak and understand Chinese but not read it.

Until she became editor, seven years ago, she would buy the magazine but not read it.

Light enough to see across the room, but not read.

Signed but not read, Morty.

Patient ER was fluent in Turkish and could understand but not read German.