Use "cursory" in a sentence

1. No passenger ships had sailed since noonmeal, the next packet out was the Jemson's Luuker and she was ready to cast off so he had time for only the most cursory look but he did not find Venna or anyone answering her description on board, nor did he find her in any of the watering holes along the docks were someone would wait for a vessel's departure

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2. "If it does any sophisticated skin capacitance readings or anything but the most cursory retinal scan, this android won't pass

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3. There was a pawnshop around the corner and he might get a few pounds for it, he thought, so he took the phone out of his jacket and gave it a cursory inspection

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4. hand in a cursory manner

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5. gave it a cursory inspection

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6. “We don’t know that, we don’t know what section of the house she lived in, we’ve only had a cursory look at the main apartment

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7. The date for the initial round of testing was published and all hopefuls were provided a cursory outline of the subjects which were to be assessed

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8. devoid of even the most cursory interest, but the

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9. assessed the girl’s symptoms, gave her a cursory

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10. Just before exiting, the Legion’s flags, hanging on all sides of the room, soon caught her cursory glance

11. he turned to exit the alleyway, the Argonian stopped the thief with a cursory tap on the shoulder

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12. After another cursory scan he was allowed into the waiting room, to be greeted by the not-sure-if-she-was-real receptionist

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13. A false impression easily discounted with the most cursory knowledge of the cosmos

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14. But with even a cursory understanding of their abilities, such a bulky thing as a space craft was not really necessary for interstellar travel

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15. She gave him a cursory look, then settled back into her chair and returned her gaze to the view

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16. No field hospital was equipped within specified distance, and the wounded were placed under shelter of a sand-bank, in the San Juan creek lying for hours awaiting cursory attention

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17. But it just does not have even the most cursory bit of evidence to back it up, and only the most ideologically blind still believe in it

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18. They were cursory checks through her handbag and overnight, not much in the way of searches, but they were there, nevertheless

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19. It was rather a cursory overview of each tribe as it had been found with some rather presumptuous and even jaundiced interpretations of them

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20. I opened the outer shell and did a cursory inspection

21. cement columns, members of the cast busied themselves with a cursory review of their most difficult lines

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22. Lucy would respond with a cursory, “No

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23. This is because these beliefs rarely bear even the most cursory examination without crumbling to dust

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24. No ‘tablets of stone’ morality stands up to even cursory examination

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25. It only takes a minute, or a cursory glance, at the list of physical symptoms

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26. A couple of cursory inspections in the early years soon become pointless, then nonexistent

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27. "Denson," says Steng as they are conducting a cursory examination of the body and site,

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28. As expected, it is cursory

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29. After a cursory check of the interior he wound down the window and said gruffly, „Either I pay you for it, or I don"t want it

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30. We’re close enough to them here that the soldiers who came gave only a cursory search, but we’re far enough from any spring training grounds that the Kiridae haven’t spotted us

31. Xin had finished charging her reactor, and was nearing the Earth when her cursory scanning mode picked up the space anomaly forming halfway between the Earth and the Moon – a space fold! No! It was too soon, and in the wrong location! It should have been hours from now, and outside the system

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32. After a cursory look round the two officers checked the kitchen

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33. After a cursory introduction, he brought Ellett up to speed with the day’s events

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34. After a cursory look around this section that yielded nothing he climbed up into the cab of the tractor and searched that

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35. That was all I could handle, I performed a cursory scan of

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36. And I could tell, even at a cursory glance, that those footprints were too big for Third to have made them

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37. I performed a cursory check of the open area on the ground

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38. A short while later, I went ahead and did a cursory scan of the

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39. cursory search of every single room in the frat house

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40. It occurred to me that I had already taken a cursory look at the kitchen on our way to the roof, and noted it was dry

41. A cursory scan revealed a white ball of cloth towards the middle

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42. From the cursory way the crew of those ships had visited her and from the pitiful amount of supplies they had left behind them each time, Tammy suspected that they only wanted to know if it was time to dispose of her remains

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43. Suddenly, he stumbled across a ticket with the first two numbers matching his cursory search

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44. He gave it a cursory glance,

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45. cursory glance, but that was all

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46. He gave the wound a cursory

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47. Wickland accepted the papers and, after a cursory glance, placed them in his desk drawer, which he locked with a key from his key ring

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48. cursory search of the surrounding alleys for Boots, but were pulled away from this task by the urgent

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49. Count Humfrid, a stocky man with long beard and hair, gave Foulques’ group a cursory glance at first as they were about to cross path

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50. He gave Hurd's comment a cursory smile

51. Fox then turned and gave a cursory examination of the articles on the table

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52. She performed a cursory medical evaluation of

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53. Right now he certainly played the part, as his bow to the Queen and King was cursory at best

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54. ” His arm gave cursory directions as he spoke

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55. “Based on my cursory survey of the planet, there were perhaps a million sentient

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56. Chu did a cursory medical exam just in case it was more than fatigue

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57. They gave cursory bows to their Queen, a

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58. He replaced the panel and had a cursory glance at the outside of the little

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59. The inspection was cursory; it did not need to be anything more

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60. This would be more than any cursory visual survey

61. Even a cursory reading of the Quran would bring to the fore the paradox of banning books perceived as offensive to the religious sentiments of a community in a country

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62. Even so, just a cursory look at history since men took over is proof enough of something Sigmund Freud once observed—in reverse

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63. Even so, just a cursory look at our history since men took over is proof enough of something Sigmund Freud once observed (reversed)

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64. Rachael bought the coffee in, passing only a cursory glance toward Byron, taking a further opportunity to reassess the young women before her

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65. “We only had a cursory

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66. Herne was waiting for her downstairs, he gave her a cursory glance, “Not

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67. her cursory examination was whether there were any initials painted on the roof

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68. The judge gave the document a cursory glance and accepted it as genuine

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69. The letter was handed to the clerk of the court and placed before Sir Hugh who gave it a cursory glance

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70. The woman moved forward, easing past her with a cursory “Excuse me, ma’am” and looking down to inspect the contents of the bowl

71. The man gave Stacey another cursory glance and nodded

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72. But a cursory look at the comments on the CNN web site revealed otherwise

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73. Then he laid it across his ankles and arranged it carefully so that on a cursory glance from a distance it could appear as though his ankles were still tightly bound

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74. days of cursory training: the average student can't tell the

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75. A cursory inspection of the shop, another shisha and tea and he took us to a fish joint for a meal

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76. Well, he did to get clothes from his drawers, to have a cursory look at Sam and sometimes to silently watch a little TV, in the upstairs living room, with Sheri

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77. irradiation chamber and then wheeled to the doctor for a cursory examination in order to have the area of his spine painted and marked that would require the next irradiation

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78. even a cursory inspection will show that Christian and Islamic players are equally involved in these

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79. He gave it a cursory glance and handed it back

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80. ‘Seri, seri,’ Ananya’s father said in a cursory manner, engrossed in the map

81. President, as would become obvious from even the most cursory examination of the case law

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82. She would never ever forgive or forget that cursory glance he gave his beautiful baby daughter

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83. The hoi polloi of jarvies or stevedores or whatever they were after a cursory examination turned their eyes apparently dissatisfied, away though one redbearded bibulous individual portion of whose hair was greyish, a sailor

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84. He was dressed in faded jeans and a baseball cap, but from her cursory glance she could tell that he was put together just right

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85. Olsen did a cursory search of the grounds, found a nice flat rock, weighed about ten pounds

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86. After some cursory and weary introductions, he got down to the real nitty-gritty

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87. till he had stolen a cursory kiss

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88. And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored

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89. The cursory remarks of the large-minded stranger, of whom he knew absolutely nothing beyond a commonplace name, were sublimed by his death, and influenced Clare more than all the reasoned ethics of the philosophers

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90. A cursory glance at the chart shows that it does at the very least reinforce what we know about the market at a given time—to a point

91. There is often a word about prospects, which is only fair considering most reports are produced several months into the next financial year, but seldom give more than a cursory suggestion

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92. , represents such a small fraction of their assets, they can get by with cursory analysis

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93. Their portfolio is not filled with "tracking positions"-that is, miniscule amounts of a large number of stocks that an investor buys on the basis of cursory research as a reminder that additional work needs to be done before a real commitment can be made

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94. Patel gave the thing a cursory glance

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95. There are a lot of Hammers, and cursory observations suggest a much higher accuracy at pivot points

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96. They are offered only as a cursory guide to option premiums, based upon extensive trading experience

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