SCRUTINIZE in a Sentence
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56 example sentences for SCRUTINIZE, such as:
1. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons.
2. Her purpose was to scrutinize his features to see if he was an honest man.
3. They fear the ear that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.
4. Searching for flaws, the sergeant wanted to scrutinize every detail of the private's uniform.
5. Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.
2. Her purpose was to scrutinize his features to see if he was an honest man.
3. They fear the ear that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.
4. Searching for flaws, the sergeant wanted to scrutinize every detail of the private's uniform.
5. Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.
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Meanings and Examples of SCRUTINIZE
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scrutinize
v. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
v. to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1 She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere.
2 He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.
3 And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
4 In a few moments the young girl had attracted the attention of the whole house, and even the occupants of the boxes leaned forward to scrutinize her magnificent diamonds.
5 "Excuse me," he added, taking an opera glass out of her hand, and proceeding to scrutinize, over her bare shoulder, the row of boxes facing them.
6 Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.
7 He screwed up his seeing eye to scrutinize the messenger more carefully, as if wishing to read in his face what preoccupied his own mind.
8 Edmond then cast his eyes scrutinizingly at the agitated and embarrassed Mercedes, and then again on the gloomy and menacing Fernand.
9 Marius examined the partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, and scrutinizes as thought would.
10 It examines, it scrutinizes, it analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of reduction, discarding all hatred.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
11 They fear the ear that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.
12 His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass.
13 On scrutinizing this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch was the Bishop.
14 Nevertheless, on scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained her beauty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
15 For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" in a singular fashion.
Example Sentence:
1 Searching for flaws, the sergeant wanted to scrutinize every detail of the private's uniform.
2 Her purpose was to scrutinize his features to see if he was an honest man.
3 Her rendition of the anthem was critically praised, but was scrutinized less than a day later when a representative from the U.S. Marine Band said Beyonce was lip-syncing and the band's performance was taped.
4 In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly, and herein lies the first problem for the researcher.