How to Use pore over in a Sentence

pore over

phrasal verb

• Clothes that make clear every single piece has been pored over.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2024
• People all around us were absorbed in their phones and laptops, poring over the day’s work.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Every night, Novak pored over the list of ticket holders to see who might show up.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Over the next year, Boeing set out to fix its software, poring over all 1 million lines of code.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• Outside the gates, tourists were taking selfies and poring over maps, some of them clutching bags from the M&M’s store.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
• At night, one of the Höss children sits in bed poring over a stash of gold teeth, presumably a gift from Papa.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• There's so much subtle imagery and symbolism; there's a lot to pore over.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2023
• Since 1980, researchers around the world have pored over the detailed records of its inhabitants.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• The duo pored over imagery from fashion, art and science and looked at seashells, the insides of animals and body parts.
  — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• After poring over the giant spreadsheet, here are some things that stand out.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
• And in the middle of it all, a short, white-haired professor is sitting at a desk, poring over some sheets of paper.
  — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
• As agents pore over the evidence gathered from the searches, some are hearing about Star Island for the first time.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• Logan pored over hundreds of the Avetts’ songs to settle on the 16 that would complete his narrative.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Even Lake, who has spent decades poring over data, is unsure.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Advocates on both sides of the bill were poring over the 75-page amendment Tuesday to understand the changes.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• The game on Sunday was settled by a penalty, the sort that might have been pored over for several minutes in the Premier League.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• My first step was to pore over books written by doctors and scholars to learn why lung health is so critical.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The travel news website Upgraded Points pored over data about how much legroom is on each of the big U.S. airlines and ranked them.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 13 June 2024
• Lawmakers—and their staffs—also have to pore over today’s laws to see which work and which need a reboot, like copyright law in the AI era.
  — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 26 June 2023
• In Florida, the trial judge has spent months poring over a host of defense motions to get the case dismissed.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 4 July 2024
• Investors pored over the filings to get insight into the Oracle of Omaha’s views on the state of the market.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
• The team worked for two years, poring over the aircraft’s components, the electrical system, the fuel lines.
  — Caitlin Rivers, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024
• The first trespasses were small: groups of friends poring over local maps, considering the land around them in new ways.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• But, in the countdown to this year’s Olympics, far more fun than reviewing the facts and figures from 1924 is poring over the surviving images from those Games.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 22 June 2024
• So to try to fix Voyager 1's current woes, the dozen or so people on Dodd's team have had to pore over yellowed documents and old mimeographs.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
• Because as of Wednesday morning (Sept. 27) there were only 21 seconds of the pod to pore over like the Zapruder film until the full episode drops later in the day.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2023
• The light from a small fraction of these supernovae—roughly a few hundred per year—reaches us here on Earth to be pored over by astronomers.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 July 2023
• Orloff and his team also pored over oral history interviews with the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• As the models begin to line up before a staircase leading to the runway, a stage manager pores over a floor plan with one of them, explaining the route.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
• Over the decade since, engineers and scientists have pored over these proposals, trying to find a suitable alignment for a ring more than three times the LHC’s length.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024