How to Use perusal in a Sentence

perusal

noun
  • New documents, at least, are out there for perusal.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • Another extra girly mani for your perusal?
    — Rebecca Norris, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Beyond Bart’s Books, downtown Ojai has dozens more unique shops for your perusal.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2026
  • But a hockey team that has every player pulling the rope in the same direction can have a lot more success than a quick perusal of the lineup might suggest.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Olympic schedule There are too many games to list, but our new full Olympic schedule interactive page is live and ready for your perusal.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Her repetitions and stammerings and strange inflections were very much her own, as a perusal of her interviews will attest.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
  • With so many books to explore and limited hours to employ, the library’s readers needed a means of deciding which books warranted perusal.
    — Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Then a perusal of several studies that spanned decades and oceans made my hypothesis cloudy enough to blot out that April Fools’ Day moon.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Just one quick perusal of Corrin’s Instagram comments reveals shocking bigotry.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 31 May 2026
  • Noecker and city staff then noted the proposal had not been uploaded to the city’s online meeting agenda, which is delivered through Legistar software, for public perusal.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2026
  • There are also GitHub repos for your perusal, and OpenAI will host stock versions of the models on its own infrastructure for testing.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Fresh as one of Lady Whistledown’s gossip sheets, a trailer for Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1 is now available for perusal.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The language switch has done nothing to lessen its global appeal, as a quick perusal of the YouTube comments suggests, though there are some jokes Jakubović acknowledges would be inscrutable outside Bosnia.
    — ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • Most workshops can go on citing examples (and from each other’s writing, too, which is fun to do)―any perusal of course reading lists or an hour spent grazing the literature shelves of a bookstore yields numerous possible stories for discussion.
    — Douglas Unger august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The likes of Mayer, Trey Anastasio, Warren Haynes, and Billy Strings were all effusive in their praise, as a quick perusal of social media will attest.
    — Alan Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2026
  • As a means of conspicuous consumption the canon is poorly served, but as a destination to explore, as a complicated, contradictory, sometimes boring and often beautiful place, there can be much to be gained through a meander, a perusal, a stroll.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • In keeping with the demands of processing the new currency, Nielsen isn’t expected to have Sunday’s NFL numbers ready for perusal until Wednesday afternoon.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • While the Fox and Sinclair docs are available for perusal on the FCC web site, the WSJ editorial likely commanded a much greater number of reader impressions.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Both photographers transform trees into arboreal personae through intent perusal and framing, deploy cars less as signifiers than as compositional forms, and relish discovering architectural oddities.
    — James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Mike the Bike was unbeaten on the RC174 at Grand Prix level and a perusal of the records and Hailwood's dominance on the Honda RC174 begs disbelief.
    — Mike Hanlon january 16, New Atlas, 16 Jan. 2026
  • More to Explore Numerous academic articles and books in this vein diagnosed Latin Americans with a pathological relationship to masculinity, often based only on perusal of Mexican literature and informal interviews with locals.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 June 2026

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