How to Use perusal in a Sentence

perusal

noun
  • Lee's post is very much worth the full read, so give it a perusal.
    Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011
  • Loop one side over a hanging rod, then loop your item over the other end for easy perusal.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2022
  • There should be a 9/11-type commission that dissects the pros and cons of the lockdown for public perusal.
    Readers, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, a brief perusal of the weekly specials makes the case that just about anything can be strombolified.
    Mara Severin, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2020
  • However, a quick perusal of the online catalog may still stir some feelings of shock and awe.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The property includes a showroom with pieces for perusal and sale, as well as a small museum.
    Jennifer Kornegay, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Upon request, the pieces can be delivered to the dinner table like a dessert tray, a few samples laid out in a box for the diner’s perusal.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • So a perusal of the UA Press website turns up titles released years ago, as well as some published within recent months.
    Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Even video calls can (and, in my opinion, should) be recorded for later employee perusal.
    Gil Becker, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The complete oeuvre of Ray and Charles Eames is awaiting your perusal in California.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Rae’s visit morphed into an ongoing perusal of the collection, and soon, new songs began to take shape in her mind.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
  • For more on the fernet and cola phenomenon, wikipedia offers an over 2000-word essay for your perusal.
    Beth Segal, cleveland, 28 May 2021
  • There are plenty of undiscovered gems awaiting your perusal.
    Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • That said, a quick perusal of TikTok reveals that there are not only dozens of incredible tips and tricks lurking beneath the surface, but also a huge interest among iOS users in learning about them.
    Yoni Heisler, BGR, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But a perusal of the organization’s website turns up a large number of news releases in which fentanyl seizures involve Americans.
    Philip Bump, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • That translates into millions of pages, billions of words and countless figures for analysts’ perusal and dissection.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In a darkened theatre, our compulsory gaze is in reflexive sympathy with the camera’s interests and our pleasure stirred by the human forms onscreen, some of whom seem posed for our perusal.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • The drama of a Telemundo soap opera was playing out on a television adjacent to the bar where various newspapers, all in Spanish, were available for perusal.
    Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2021
  • HotDrop, a free app founded last summer by two Indiana University seniors, lets artists select 30-second clips of their songs for your perusal.
    Lina Abascal, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Stacks of political posters from movements past and present — Bowers’ source materials — are available for perusal on a nearby table.
    Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2021
  • One thing that struck me during my voyeuristic perusal of the various tales of carnage from last week’s marathons was the way many people who’d had a rough day nevertheless sounded reassuringly upbeat.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Instant replay has become a joke, creating interminable delays with the challenge system, the view from the video room, the perusal at New York headquarters and the umpires huddling together with headphones.
    Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 23 June 2020
  • What raises my eyebrows is the way in which the photo is being passed around from one cast member to the other for casual perusal and ridicule, and used by producers to prod contestants in piece-to-camera interviews for a scandalous storyline.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But there is one catalog whose quarterly arrival overshadows all others, whose perusal has become a cherished ritual for me and my husband over the last decade: Scully & Scully.
    Leah Bhabha, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The perusal of the great Stoic philosopher was one of Professor Merrick’s favourite pursuits, and in this, as in all his other intellectual excursions, the cluster of ladies under his roof followed him with dauntless devotion.
    Edith Wharton, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Visitors were invited to watch ongoing excavations, and the storerooms inside the site’s museum were opened for public perusal.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Viewing chairs on a slowly rotating platform allow a comfortable, neck-relaxed perusal.
    Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • All of the various streaming and recording options have now been condensed into a single tab for easier perusal, because nobody likes hunting down disparate settings spread throughout a complicated app like Radeon Software.
    Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 20 Apr. 2021
  • He’s demanded an end to working from home and instituted a strict regimen of micromanagement all the way down to mandating software developers submit their code weekly for his perusal.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Bryan admits to partaking in an occasional Instagram perusal of previous contestants.
    Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024

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