Sentence examples for casual search from inspiring English sources

A casual search through eBay 's auctions will prove that there's still a market for that antiquated Atari 2600 or Commodore 64 gathering dust in the attic.

A recent casual search unearths a "top grade Louis Vuitton look-alike bag" selling for less than $60, a pirated DVD of Oscar winner The King's Speech for 75 cents and a fake Rolex watch for $220.

A casual search of the CCL corpus (北京大学古代汉语语料库 available at http://ccl.pku.edu.cn:8080/ccl_corpus/, accessed 23 August 2016) yielded 466 tokens of 灾害 zai-hai "natural disaster," 151 of 水害 shui-hai "flood," 108 of 寇害 kou-hai "burglary," 87 of 边害 bian-hai "border unrest," and 21 of 虫害 chong-hai "insect-induced crop damage".

The casual search for a newspaper led through hotel lobbies and newsstands and bookstores in which all pointed to the railway station, often the place of last resort for a journal in English.

After weeks of casual searching, she found a potentially great deal on vouchers for a hotel suite at the Excelsior, on West 81st Street.

I took a grim tour around some of the major social sites into which we sink our hours to see what just a little bit of casual searching could find — yet algorithms often can't (or won't).

For instance, park officials point out that a casual Internet search turns up dozens of solicitations for public sex on Fire Island beaches.

It takes merely a casual Internet search to discover online self-help groups for a myriad of issues related to moral and emotional crises, including infidelity, domestic abuse, violence, bullying; the list is extensive.

It calls for far more than an Internet troll for names to fill in a family tree or a casual database search for illustrious kin to enliven cocktail-party chitchat.

Some marketing efforts give off the same vibe, like that creepy feeling when a casual online search leads to a glut of ads for the same pair of boots or getaway destination.

A casual internet search returns a disorienting array of options that promise to alleviate the misery of the balding man: from herbal remedies to surgical procedures, from magic foams to fancy hairpieces, from restorative shampoos to nanofibre sprays for "colouring in" bald patches.