Sentence examples for perfunctory search from inspiring English sources

Set in the bleak Pas de Calais, Mr Dumont's film describes a culpably perfunctory search for the killer of a child.

"The most perfunctory search of the parliamentary register would have shown that the so-called new information was more than a year and a half old," he said.

Eventually Victoria agreed to assist without payment, although an unnamed correspondent of the Public Ledger doubted whether the ship made more than a perfunctory search.

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The briefest, most perfunctory Google search is all that's required to access thousands of pictures of strangers on public transport, posted to social media sites and blogs, obviously taken without permission.

That Siegel either ignored these articles, or simply couldn't be bothered to run a perfunctory google search to see if his points held water, is emblematic of a larger issue: the literati are either dying, or culturally irrelevant.

"For every lost ball, there was a forlorn search, perfunctory or thorough," John Updike wrote in the foreword to "Lost Balls," a 2005 golf book.

It's pretty upsetting to imagine our children's children thumbing through a dusty, weighty book in search of perfunctory and to first stumble upon perf.

One of his best stories, 'Liars in Love' (selected by Richard Ford in the New Granta Book of the American Short Story), recounts a series of perfunctory encounters of a timid Fulbright scholar in search of sex in seedy, postwar London, and an East End family living off their prostitute daughters.

Another case solved**.** Though it is possible that Nev and Max rely on more advanced technologies for their searches than what appears on the show, what does appear on camera is a limited, almost perfunctory approach to online research.

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