- present participle of peruse.
perusing
Example Sentences
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While perusing them, he said he discovered that the foreword to their book had been plagiarized from an article written by a BBC reporter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 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
So next time you’re in the herb aisle, perusing the verdant options, bypass the usual suspects.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
I wondered to myself, scrolling through his more than 750 posts and perusing his 211,000 followers.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024
There was a simple reason for my having taken to perusing such works; it was an extremely efficient way to maintain and develop one's command of the English language.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
