read someone
Example Sentences
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It made me a much better reader, to read someone this closely and familiarize myself with all the versions and pieces that go into different editions of one work.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2021
To read Boz was to read someone, all at once, in love: with words, with baseball, with the city in which we lived.
From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021
“This was the first of many times,” he notes, “I would marvel at the brain’s power, elasticity and secrets. I found it fascinating to read someone else’s paper, written by me.”
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018
I read someone say that we were overstating the degree to which the accusations hurt Moore, and understating the degree to which he was already unpopular.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2017
“Very wrong. The point is that you must never read someone else’s correspondence.”
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
