leaf through
Example Sentences
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We are keenly aware of Mr. Lucas’s pride and delight in each acquisition, and he lets us see them, one after another, just as a stamp collector might leaf through his album.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Yes, his journalists had used private investigators with databases to legally obtain phone numbers, so they didn't have to leaf through phone books.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026
Some city ordinances weren’t even indexed, forcing Birch and Karabian to leaf through the longhand lawbooks page by page, wearing special archival gloves.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
We still neatly package misery for students, leaving it as something to stumble upon as they leaf through files, as if it's as ordinary as a rule of civil procedure or a trespassing statute.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2022
I pick up a notepad like the one he keeps in his pocket and leaf through it, wondering if there might be some clue in it, in this room, as to what happened to him.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
