Sentence examples for the perusal from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of perusing; studying something carefully.
He had much loose time, and nothing, somehow, better filled it than the perusal of extinct mammals.
One firm transported 200 would-be trophy wives to a resort town in southwestern China for the perusal of one powerful magnate.
That book is Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler, or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers".
"I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary".
Yet by many accounts, the perusal often leads to little but grief for sellers, who may return to find scuff marks on the wall, muddy carpets or even missing tableware.
An obvious example is bioprospecting, the perusal of nature's genetic library for new food, medicine and pesticide ingredients.This alone should justify conserving forests, given how many useful discoveries they yield.
Unexpected twists, turns and apertures also encourage a degree of in-the-round perusal unusual for works that are still no more than nine inches high.
The present perusal calculated the excitation function for the both 89Y p,x)87 m,gY direct reaction and decay of 87Zr via 89Y p,3 n 87Zr→87mY mY → 87 gY indirect reaction using the TALYS-1.8 code.
Poe loved short stories for the power they gave their authors: "During the hour of perusal, the soul of the reader is at the writer's control".
The boy will not have to have his penis forcibly made erect for the authorities' perusal.
Nor do I think that the occasional perusal of a fashion magazine or gossip site is inherently bad.
