leaf through
Example Sentences
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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
His first wife, Ivana Trump said she had seen him occasionally leaf through a collection of Hitler's speeches that a friend had given him.
From Salon • Dec. 22, 2023
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
As the owners, they can listen to the 31 tracks on its two CDs, ogle its engraved nickel-silver box and leaf through the leather-bound parchment book that are part of the item’s overall package.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021
I used to leaf through her book, reading only the footnotes, trying to memorize all those big definitions, trying to understand her indecipherable language.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
