How to Use pore over in a Sentence

pore over

phrasal verb

• By contrast, pore over the list of the Democrats who stand with Biden.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 July 2024
• 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
• The fun and beauty of it lies in poring over the tiny details, and the feeling of the pistol recoiling into your hand.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• After poring over the giant spreadsheet, here are some things that stand out.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
• When deciding what to wear to a recent event at her law school, Fiza Faheem, 20, pored over the options in her wardrobe.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2024
• 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
• All of the dossier authors worked as volunteers, poring over papers and images in their spare time.
  — science.org, 26 Sep. 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
• As part of the surge of resources, forensic teams have been poring over crime scenes in an effort to help solve investigations on tribal lands.
  — Josh Campbell, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024