read someone
Example Sentences
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Mr. Freeman said he would never lip read someone in their home.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023
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
The best he can do on such solemn occasions is to woodenly read someone else’s words off a teleprompter as he flashes the thumbs-up sign.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2018
“Very wrong. The point is that you must never read someone else’s correspondence.”
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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