In a sentence
Six example sentences with peruse, each labelled with its topic.
She perused the footnotes for two hours, line by line, before agreeing that the pension figures could be trusted.
Finance
The editor perused every page of the manuscript twice, marking each inconsistency in the timeline with a small blue flag.
Literature
Before signing, he perused the drawings closely and found that the stair width shrank by a hand on the third floor.
Architecture
The junior associate perused the lease for three hours and found the clause that made the whole deal worthless.
Law
Reviewers perused the raw data table and noticed that one plot had been drawn from a different sample.
Science
The archivist perused the faded ledger page by page and found the merchant's name in an entry from 1712.
History
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