Sentence examples for cursory instruction from inspiring English sources

There is the cursory instruction "Don't move!" That is, until someone else makes you.

Too often they seem to be getting only cursory instruction.

Ultimately, Judge Herrick found, "the amorphous quality of the evolving indictments," coupled with "cursory and inadequate instructions," demanded that he dismiss the charges against the five defendants.

But driver education has devolved into a cursory chore.

Anyone troubling to take even a cursory glance at the quotation's context will find the choice offers neither instruction nor solace.

Such a verdict may be justified in many cases as research has revealed ' … instruction in evolutionary biology at the high school level has been absent, cursory, or fraught with misinformation' (Rutledge and Mitchell [2002] p. 21) and 'about one-fourth of Oklahoma public school life-science teachers place moderate or strong emphasis on creationism' (Weld and McNew [1999], p. 52).

"My interest was cursory".

A cursory nod encouraged.

But it's pretty cursory.

Their handshake was cursory.

They all eat a cursory dinner.