How to Use pore in a Sentence

pore

1 of 2 verb
  • Sanford put on his uniform and drove to work to pore over call logs with his team.
    — Jay Greene, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Not everyone wants to run their own video server or pore over source code.
    — Klint Finley, Wired, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Still, major breaks have come to light, Stone says, thanks to those willing to pore over all the files.
    — Will Tizard, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Over the course of two years, the men spent several hours each week testing melodies and poring over lyrics.
    — Morgan Smith, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Customers can pore through pages of inventory to find the missing piece to their home.
    — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Read your cookbooks and pore over every culinary site on the internet.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Doctors and scientists on the agency’s staff pore over the study results.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Over the years, benefit has pored (pun intended) over pore data.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Dave Heller has pored over plenty of plans — both good and bad — during his three decades as an architect.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2019
  • And do pore strips really remove blackheads?
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Sometimes, White will pore through dozens of assignments — from kindergarten all the way though eighth grade.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Activist groups and senators will pore over the nominee's record.
    — Melissa MacAya, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
  • This sense that wine must be pored over like a calculus textbook is disheartening.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Jenkins says her four-person team spent well over 80 hours poring through the archives to compile this year's list.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The state media photos offered one of the few glimpses for analysts to pore over to gain intel and clues about life under the regime.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
  • While Auburn could pore through the transfer portal to fill that spot, that option appears unlikely at this time.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 31 May 2022
  • Koh applied for the clinic's free legal services and within a week, a small fleet of law students were poring over her agreement.
    — Claudia Rosenbaum, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The kindergartener would find ones that looked especially intriguing, take them home, and pore over them in her bedroom.
    — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The packaging and longform liner notes were fascinating to pore over.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 25 Aug. 2020
  • There is no reason to pore through the Nuggets highlights or Avs boxscores, this game stands alone as the best comeback ever.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There, Mansour would meet with authors to discuss their new works, hash out contracts or pore over the minutiae of book layouts.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • Scientists pore over every pixel, measuring the incoming light and the ways it has been stretched on its way across the universe.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 July 2022
  • Not everyone cares about them like those of us who pore over the sports pages of the Boston Globe (bless you, by the way, every one of you).
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2020
  • For weeks, Globe reporters pored through criminal court filings that cover three decades and span Skerritt’s life.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Fleshman pored over her training records looking for a clue, and asked probing questions about what else in Mehra’s life might be affecting her.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Instead, the creators and a small team of writers pore over their yearbooks and their juvenile correspondence.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Kanaan wanted to give that to his fans and a five-race, oval-only program was his best option after an offseason poring through his rolodex of contacts.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Fact-checkers had to pore over the 1,000-page bill to resolve the dispute, and even then their verdict took a lot of explaining.
    — Sarah Green Carmichael, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2019
  • For every new film from Peele, there’s at least a dozen articles that pore over every detail to unpack the meaning behind the ending.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 July 2022
  • Fed officials will pore over to decide whether to continue hikes of 75 basis points or slow down to 50 basis point hikes next month.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2022

pore

2 of 2 noun
  • My nose is so soft and pores tightened.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That buildup is what clogs your pores and brings about new pimples.
    — Kathleen Felton, Health, 28 June 2023
  • That’s when plants are stressed and close their leaf pores to survive.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Keep scrolling to find the one that’ll make those clogged pores a thing of the past.
    — Sarah Han, Allure, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps the sponge-like ices form with closed pores rather than opens ones.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The glowy formula blurs pores and plumps the skin.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Conversely, a face wash is made to clean your pores more deeply.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Our tester loved how smooth her skin felt after using the pore strip.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • The rough fibers had tiny grooves and uneven pores on their surfaces.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
  • These have the same structure, but bigger pores.
    — Stavroula Alina Kampouri, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The smooth, pore-free look is no longer only for glossy ad campaigns.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Graphite’s small pores are able to absorb heat for a cooler night of sleep.
    — Jack Byram, Health, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Drescher has praised the primer for helping blur the look of pores and fine lines.
    — Brittany Anas, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
  • Grief came pouring out of every pore of her body as a mom in mourning.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Inside a thick electrode, not all pores behave the same way.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
  • This swap will help hydrate your skin without clogging your pores.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 8 June 2026
  • Your pores might be congested with gunk or product residue.
    — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 8 June 2026
  • Plus, my pores are untraceable.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The next-gen facial is not about cleaning your pores, but lifting your face.
    — Rachel Strugatz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The gel formula leaves no white cast, is reef friendly, and won’t clog pores.
    — ELLE, 15 Mar. 2023
  • As sweat poured from his every pore, a make-up team rushed in with useless towelettes.
    — Deborah Wilker, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Acne Acne occurs when oil and dead skin cells clog the pores.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The formula boasts a smoothing effect on the skin that blurs the look of pores.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The pores can range in size from 50 to 1000 nanometers.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2016
  • In summer, the surface of the ice melts, filling tiny pores with water.
    — Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Just be aware that silicone is known to clog pores, so this isn’t the best pick for the acne-prone skin.
    — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2023
  • From there, the beer is put into oak barrels, the pores of which contain more microbes.
    — Don Tse, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • My normally large pores looked smaller, my skin looked slightly tighter and more smooth.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • But the complex of proteins needed to make more proteins is far too large to go through a small pore.
    — ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
  • My pores are non-existent, my forehead is snatched and fine-line free, and my skin looks so glassy and smooth.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 24 May 2026

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