How to Use pore over in a Sentence

pore over

verb
  • One boy learns to cook, poring over YouTube recipes.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Young entrepreneurs should be sure to pore over their state's laws before opening their stand.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • That leaves academics to pore over surveys that are too slow and too broad to be useful, or to devise new ones.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • A day of poring over records, however, gave up nothing more than hints and shadows.
    — Eugene Robinson, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Analysts pore over their pronouncements to glean shifts on key issues.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Performance analysts are often poring over twice as many games in a week.
    — Mark Critchley, New York Times, 3 May 2026
  • The writers pored over issues of George magazine.
    — Juli Weiner, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Cosell spends his off-seasons poring over prospects’ game tapes to assess their viability as pros.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Of those, after poring over financials, only two were of interest to me.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • But for those interested in fashion history, these red carpet looks are key texts just asking to be pored over.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The background of the gunman, Jared Loughner, would be pored over for clues about what compelled him to act.
    — Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • One of the ways that will manifest in this year’s show is the production design, from the set to the red carpet, details are pored over for many months.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Before the season premiere on June 7, here is a spoiler-heavy recap to pore over in preparation.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 7 June 2026
  • In a tiny windowless office off the lobby, Hoffman sat at a desk, poring over archival photographs.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But here, poring over documents in this small cinderblock office, there’s only Flores.
    — Megan Greenwell, Bloomberg, 9 June 2026
  • Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson has pored over those minutes methodically.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 7 June 2026
  • Lock pores over concepts and opposing defenses with Darnold every morning and bounces reminders off him.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But keep a little perspective, too, and know that people have been poring over the Apollo material for longer than most of us have been alive.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 May 2026
  • For months, the casting directors pored over hundreds of tapes and scoured social media and talent agencies to find their version of the Kennedy scion.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2026
  • The department has said hundreds of lawyers have pored over the documents to look for survivors' names — a gargantuan task given the sheer number of records.
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • In an email to The San Diego Union-Tribune, a spokesperson said Chevron was still poring over the details.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Beat by sensitive beat, Conrad pores over why his two leads feel so alienated, even when living what appear to be the same kind of lives everyone else seems to find so fulfilling.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Investigators are poring over thousands of hours of video and police said there are more than 150 witnesses to interview.
    — Braulio Tellez mar. 2, Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • After a thorough search of the family's property, the city and poring over witness testimony, Noel's body was never found.
    — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Our restaurant critics pore over southeast Michigan’s best restaurants to honor the newcomers that stand out for their excellence in food, service and overall feel.
    — Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no greater satisfaction than buying the garment or accessory coveted in preteen years spent poring over magazines.
    — Selene Oliva, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2026
  • After poring over the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, a million words in all, Fehrman decided there was.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 24 June 2026
  • Online, his videos look chaotic, but behind the scenes, the project’s ringleader spends his free time poring over satellite maps, visiting potential chase sites and crafting the necessary recording angles.
    — Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • The trio has also pored over California’s vintage newspapers, which are newly digitized, to find old mining companies’ reports on promising hot spots.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The findings appear to undercut recent speculation by online observers who have pored over video of the shootout and saw numerous agents training their weapons on Allen from different angles.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026

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