The barricades became more numerous, and from time to time we were halted by a British sentry and our passes were scrutinised with especial care.
It was scrutinised closely, the name and number of the car were recorded, and the officer, once more saluting, motioned us to proceed.
Having shrewdly scrutinisedthe bark, she judged the tenant to be at home.
An expert weighed the treasure, scrutinised it shrewdly through a microscope, and handed it back with a casual remark that it was a pretty curio, but that its market value was about half a crown.
Mrs. Chesters had scrutinised with harsh eyes every detail of her rival's face and figure.
Seemingly satisfied, he turned again and narrowly scrutinised the wall once more, then slowly, and as though very tired, withdrew from the room and came back along the passage, and passed within his own chamber.
Hadrian, ever a patron of the arts, glanced quickly at the reddening cheeks of the young Briton, then stepped forward to the fountain-head, and scrutinised it with close attention.
She drew him towards a lamp and scrutinised him attentively, and he saw her quick startled glance directed towards his empty sleeve, and felt unaccountably embarrassed.
He paused, andscrutinised Matheson closely for a moment or so.
Again she scrutinised him closely, with renewed anxiety in her gaze.
Nel scrutinised him closely, a kindly, rather wistful, expression lighting his grave features.
That depends," Matheson answered, and scrutinised the speaker closely, "on what the service is.
Oom Koos scrutinised him closely and smiled and stroked his horses' flanks gently with the whip.
Quickly she lifted her eyes, brown, earnest eyes, to his face, and scrutinised him closely.
He scrutinised her for a moment, and found himself enjoying the effects of the last rays of the sunset warming her hair and the clear olive of her skin.
I walked nearer to the picture and scrutinised it closely.
Hewitt snatched one up and scrutinised it closely.
He lifted the box from the safe to the table, and narrowly scrutinised its exterior, especially about the hasp, where the padlock had been.
After a time he raised his eyes, and freshly scrutinised the prisoner-- who had already returned an affirmative answer to his last query.
But one who scrutinised more closely could not fail to note in those fair features an expression of sadness that must have sprung from a different and deeper source.
Miette, whose face was half-concealed by her hood, was scrutinisedrather inquisitively.
Her face burnt as she scrutinised the sportsmen with a strange air of mingled indignation and sympathy.
The keeper would not let people in until, by the light of his lantern, he had carefully scrutinisedtheir faces through a peep-hole.
As he passed among the busy crowd, Fix, according to habit, scrutinised the passers-by with a keen, rapid glance.
Having scrutinised the house from top to bottom, he rubbed his hands, a broad smile overspread his features, and he said joyfully, "This is just what I wanted!
Karschoff scrutinised the approaching figures through his eyeglass and nodded.
Communing with his soul, he scrutinised his own conduct, and fervently entreated Him who is almighty, and whose eye searches the heart, not to abandon him, if the cause for which he fought was righteous.
He learnt, too, the art of reckoning, and with close application scrutinised most carefully the course of the stars.
This passage has been closely scrutinised and commented on.
With this view Stradivari seems to have been careful to let the evidence of no hand but his own be seen in parts that were sure to be closely scrutinised as evidence.
In like manner Stradivari, like other masters before him, knew that his handiwork would be scrutinised as well as the tone of his instruments.
The Countess held the small light higher and scrutinised his face thoughtfully.
The Doctor suddenly stooped to pick up a sheet of paper which lay on the floor, and which he now scrutinised attentively although it bore no writing.
He turned down the bed-clothes, and scrutinised the sheets and pillows.
Queensmead scrutinised the pocket-book and its contents, and on handing it back remarked: "Do you think Penreath returned and concealed himself in the wood to recover these notes?
A furtive glance showed me her pale, terrified face, her troubled eyes which scrutinised my features .
I scrutinised her appearance: her missing tooth had been replaced, a fact which made her look much younger.
Marie scrutinised the stranger in her free and easy manner, took his measure, as it were, and became lost in a reverie.
She turned her hands, and hescrutinised the backs of them very deliberately.
He turned the note which Mr Musgrave had delivered to him on his palm, and seemed to weigh it while he scrutinised the writer, weighing other matters in his mind with equal deliberation.
She scrutinised her master attentively, the idea that he must be sickening for something suggesting itself to her mind.
You look," said Sophy, as she stood for a moment and scrutinised the smiling face, "wicked.
She scrutinised her sister with a wicked little smile and touched the becoming dimple at the corner of Peggy's mouth with the tip of a long, well-shaped finger.
Even as she rapidly walked down the crowded street mademoiselle closely scrutinised each vehicle that overtook her, and once, at a busy crossing, she deliberately stopped.
During the inspector's running comments Brett had carefully scrutinised each of the windows.
Thence he scrutinisedhis master's irrational method of taking exercise, unfeigned contempt in every line of him, from nose-tip to tail.
He scrutinised the furniture and the slight powdering of dust on each article: in vain!
By the light of a smoky lamp the two women scrutinised the labels, sniffing the various phials and flasks.
In the distance we saw a man and a boy walking up towards us along the path thro' the corn, but the eye having momentarily scrutinised them wandered away and the conversation never paused.
Intent on this new end, she darted across to the bureau (of which the lid was permanently down and laden with papers and portfolios), and scrutinised the pigeon-holes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrutinised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
