Sentence examples for scan it for from inspiring English sources

Plug in your remote storage device and scan it for viruses as its still possible there are viruses in the files you backed up.

"Once Richard's body came home, they had to scan it for shrapnel.

"Paul Silas told me this a long time ago: When you read all of these columns, you scan it for the bold print," Van Gundy said.

I was too drunk and tired to read it that night, and got a befuddled clerk at the Arizona Inn to scan it for me.

Even in the most straightforward of novels, it's up to the reader to reassemble the component parts of the story in their minds and then scan it for meaning.

Before he lived alone, he would have thrown it away without a second look, but now, as he slowly took on the careful habits of a Boston codger, he read every scrap he was sent, and even stooped in the alleys to pick up a muddy fragment of newspaper and scan it for a message.

At night, unable to sleep, she scans it for patterns, eventually coming to believe that another woman is confined behind it.

A hospital official later put the number of dead at 22. Frantic Iraqis gathered around the handwritten notice, scanning it for familiar names.

I could have scanned it for commonalities and implications in an inside-baseball way, thought about possible future MacArthurs, and gone home stimulated without having heard a note.

Two poll workers took the ballot out of my hands and scanned it for me even though I asked them not to.

Part of the fun of "Appetite" is just scanning it for the throwaway lines: "Ignore anyone who tells you that you shouldn't drink alone"; "Two cannot live as cheaply as one.