- present participle of peruse.
perusing
Example Sentences
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“We like perusing and we like looking at flights sometimes.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Muse was, unsurprisingly, adept at perusing Facebook Marketplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
When I die, I will not feel like the time spent perusing Amazon search results was important to my story.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
It's a story I first stumbled on almost a decade ago while perusing the newspaper archives – and the more I dug, the more I discovered.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
“You have serious problems,” he said, perusing a stack of papers on the table.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
