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Example sentences for "scrutinize"

Lexicographically close words:
scrutinise; scrutinised; scrutinises; scrutinising; scrutinisingly; scrutinized; scrutinizes; scrutinizing; scrutinizingly; scrutiny
  1. For three days, every morning and afternoon, I anxiously scrutinize the faces of the passing men; but Russell is not among them.

  2. Even in the simple logic with which we usually begin our studies, we learn to scrutinize statements in a reflective way; and when we go deeper, we are at once in contact with philosophical problems.

  3. On the other hand, our investigations may be more profound, and we may scrutinize the very foundations upon which a science rests.

  4. For some minutes he continued to scrutinize the drawing minutely where he sat.

  5. Presently I took a candle, and seating myself at the other end of the room, proceeded to scrutinize the parchment more closely.

  6. The Cigar Makers have a staff of travelling auditors who from time to time inspect the accounts of local unions and scrutinize the administration of the benefits.

  7. Does he dare scrutinize my conduct, and harbour suspicions of my predilection for a certain unfortunate?

  8. We shall now scrutinize more closely some of the developments which arose out of such an environment.

  9. The league is composed of voters in every ward, who, acting through committees and alert officers, scrutinize every candidate for city office from the Mayor down.

  10. For a while, the Provincials defended their national palladium with clamors and arms and new visions condemned to death and hell the profane sceptics who presumed to scrutinize the truth and merit of the discovery.

  11. I must desire to scrutinize first the text, and then the authority of Ferishta, who lived in the Mogul court in the last century.

  12. She continued to scrutinize her husband broodingly.

  13. He paused a moment to scrutinize the long walls, on which the fabulous blues and pinks of the great Boucher series looked as livid as withered roses.

  14. She continued to scrutinize him with her clear eyes, in which there was no shadow of offense.

  15. When I was lost in thought, I saw her scrutinize me furtively, then look at my children; but she either said nothing or talked about things which could not interest me.

  16. She did not see me, so I was able to scrutinize her at my leisure.

  17. But he wished to see and know too much, to scrutinize too minutely the genesis of the affections: a new Acteon, he received the penalty of his bold investigations: his own faithful hounds pursued him and tore him in pieces.

  18. He preaches charity and neighborly love to all, it is true, but he does it for his own sake; for he does not find it for his interest to encourage people to scrutinize too closely, and to discover by rigid examination the characters of others.

  19. But when we come to scrutinize the social phenomena in detail, and men's sentiments as modified by the introduction of exchange, we soon perceive how they have come to confound wants with wealth, the obstacle with the cause.

  20. Argout; * but it is worth while to scrutinize the doctrine of a statesman, to whom France for a long time entrusted the care of her agriculture and of her commerce.

  21. All may scrutinize it again and again, as often and as closely as they please.

  22. I say nothing of my sentiments for you; all I can do at present is not to scrutinize my heart.

  23. Yet she is really one of the most difficult to scrutinize with our telescopes.

  24. I 'lowed they'd git tired," muttered Cousin, sticking the top of his head into the kettle and lifting the edge a crack so he could scrutinize the forest.

  25. My heart was warm to rejoin old friends, to enjoy women's company; but never a moment did I neglect to scrutinize the trace ahead.

  26. Next he saw a faint gleam of eyes, which seemed to scrutinize him steadily, fearlessly, indifferently, for perhaps the greater part of a minute.

  27. As the seals were not expecting danger from the direction of the sea, they were not inclined to scrutinize a thing so insignificant as that steadily moving speck among the waves.

  28. Her desire, mixed with fear, that something of this sort might happen in her case, impelled her to scrutinize with considerable care the faces of the poor.

  29. For in the state in which you find yourself it is very difficult, not to say impossible, to fathom all the profundities of the spirit and scrutinize all of its hiding-places.

  30. He glanced down as though to suggest that if Phil were to scrutinize his raiment she might very readily understand why, instead of being among the dancers, he contented himself with watching them from a convenient fence corner.

  31. She compressed her lips as she continued to scrutinize it.

  32. The seated man did not reply; but another man on the speaker's right, a large man, widest at the waist, leaned across the arm of his chair to scrutinize the jewel.

  33. Now two stand together and scrutinize him; and now there are three, looking and smiling.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrutinize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.