Cursory In A Sentence

• I have in a cursory way looked over them.
• The clerk gave her a cursory glance.
• It is cursory glancing, desultory and wasteful.
• He made a cursory examination and shook his head dubiously.
• Nor did he make even a cursory search for the secret mine.
• We made no examination of these, not even a cursory one.
• My explanation must, of necessity, be cursory and brief.
• Boy made a cursory inspection of the pony's mouth.
• Except for cursory references, this pamphlet is of no great value.
• On a cursory examination they both declared it to be a genuine Michelangelo.
• A cursory glance showed him that the name of Morris Thornton was on it.
• This brief and cursory review of Ireland at Play must now conclude.
• Versailles only came under Napoleon's cursory regard for a brief moment.

• The cursory examination we were afforded measures the disadvantage of an itinerary.
• Is its treatment of the subject exhaustive and definite, or cursory and superficial?
• I have already given a cursory sketch of the geographical features of the whole continent.
• Here, a very cursory examination satisfied my visiters of the truth of my story.
• Pitt had but a cursory glance at the face, but it was enough to make him follow the owner of it.
• The power to estimate a book or an article on a cursory inspection is of great practical value.
• I regret, therefore, that it must here be dealt with only in a most cursory manner.
• That was the cursory verdict, the superficial thing to see and say; it will do to go on with.
• The several memoirs, so far as a cursory glance enables us to judge, are edited with great care.
• Madame Beattie turned upon it a cursory gaze, and gave a nod that seemed to accept its identity.
• His acquaintanceship with that clock must certainly have given him an advantage over the cursory observer!
• The supplies of the expedition were running too short to allow of any but a cursory examination of these two rivers.
• There was nothing complex about the mechanism; a cursory examination sufficed to reveal how it was operated.
• A cursory glance at it will appear to the youth of the present generation like a peep into a strange and fearful world.
• It is not possible in a chapter, a book or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.
• Their figures were much the same, and in the half-light a mere cursory glance could not have detected them apart.
• It is no longer dark and menacing, and anyone may satisfy himself by a cursory inspection that birds by no means shun it now.
• It was occupied to its limits by a Spanish family, so we took but the most cursory of glances into it.
• It is not, however, a distant or cursory glance that will give the observer a just idea of the mercantile importance of this busy capital.
• A cursory inspection quickly convinced Jack that the station was not of recent installation, but had been put in about the year 1918.
• The tree, which was low and wide branching, and overrun with lichens, appeared at a cursory glance to contain not one dry or decayed limb.
• Richard Carew condescended to reason a little before he resorted to that cold, cursory logic, but he might just as well have saved himself both.
• He informed my father that he had been mistaken in me, before ... that he had given me a too cursory look-over, judging me after the usual run ...
• Mr. Gould entered the room with a low, stealthy tread, and looked me over in a cursory way and yet with the air of a connoisseur.
• The most cursory glance at the preaching of the earliest heralds of the gospel will suffice to show the prominent place which they gave to this glorious fact.
• Anyone who takes a cursory glance at the heavens on a clear night can readily perceive that there exists considerable diversity of colour among the stars.
• Upon cursory examination, KU 40118 is notable for having a contrasting dorsal pattern and elongate, ranidlike proportions.

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