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read here and there

VERB

browse

Synonyms

STRONGEST

flip through leaf through peruse read scan skim

STRONG

feed graze nibble survey

WEAK

check over dip into examine cursorily get the cream give the once-over glance at hit the high spots inspect loosely once over lightly pass an eye over riff through riffle through run through skip through thumb through wander

VERB

riffle

Synonyms

STRONG

feed graze leaf nibble peruse read scan skim survey thumb

WEAK

check over dip into examine cursorily flip through get the cream give the once-over glance at hit the high spots inspect loosely leaf through once over lightly pass an eye over riff through riffle through run through skip through thumb through wander

Antonyms

STRONG

neglect

Example Sentences

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Self-Reliance," and turning the leaves, read here and there a passage which was marked: "'My life is for itself, and not for a spectacle.'

From Rose in Bloom by Alcott, Louisa May

Open at random, read here and there, forward and back, wholly according to inclination; follow the practice of Johnson and all good readers, of 'tearing the heart' out of it.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor

He turned the pages back, and read here and there with an accumulating discontent.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"Katie Peck," and was not easy to read, here and there.

From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen

Then I read here and there in all of them, observing all the old passages I had marked.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry

read here and there

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