Sentence examples for scanning the screen from inspiring English sources

Almost every man and woman is on the phone or scanning the screen of a BlackBerry.

They do, however, reduce the age-old frustration of scanning the screen for hotspots.

He sat at his computer scanning the screen as he struggled to pull up some information.

One imagines them scanning the screen for a glimpse — perhaps the last — of a loved one, and recoiling from the suffering and destruction that can only have seemed too close and too real.

The Royal Garden sequence, with its dizzying simultaneity of action, offers one of the most complex extended comedy routines ever seen; scanning the screen and spotting action in one corner, you inevitably miss what's happening elsewhere.

From the moment Jim (Pemberton) announces that he wishes to get revenge on his prank-playing brother-in-law Pat (Shearsmith) you're constantly scanning the screen for clues (well, mainly for items that can kill or seriously maim).

The average age of a Vice journalist is 25, but scanning the screen-staring ranks of the magazine's newsroom that seems on the high side.

Tom Randolph, the co-producer, stood beside him, making suggestions, scanning the screens to see what Roy might not ("O'Hair just took an unplayable; do we have a shot?").

The managers monitored the pace, too — scanning the screens for a station stacking up red flags, indicating orders past the target time, and deciding whether to give the cooks at the station a nudge or an extra pair of hands.

Either way, a million iPads will roll down a thousand assembly lines, five hundred tired eyes scanning the screens for the tiniest imperfections while the relentless juggernaut of our own desire ravages the planet and pulls us further from the sense of humanity that Daisey tried to mightily to impart on the impassive faces of the Asian manufacturing giants.

His eyes scanned the screen -- copy for the next issue.