page through
phrasal verb
paged through; paging through; pages through
: to turn the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.) especially in a quick, steady manner
He paged through the magazine looking for the article.
Examples of page through in a Sentence
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Consider the stereotypical woman paging through Vogue, and consider the stereotypical man reading Popular Mechanics.
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Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
With locals at their sides, Gordon and his team page through the photographs, hoping to find another source as open and knowledgeable as Lion.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
With Bender on the stand, prosecutors paged through the couple’s financial records.
—Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
Mann is like Robert De Niro’s character in Heat, who, preparing for a heist, sits down casually at a lunch counter to page through a phonebook-thick tome about the metals his crew has to blast through.
—John Semley, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
For those of us who still love to page through actual cookbooks — see our staff picks for our favorite 2023 cookbooks — this week has been particularly exciting in Los Angeles.
—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
The space itself is outfitted with hardwood floors and natural woods, Art Deco-style light fixtures, and even a comfy window seat for paging through Aftel’s incredible selection of antique books, with titles like A History of the Use of Incense and Spices and How to Know Them.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
Previously customers shopping for tires for their car spent somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes with a Sam’s Club associate paging through manuals and looking up specs on websites.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2019
Cooper began to page through old Film Forum calendars, an archive of her frequently prescient taste.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
With locals at their sides, Gordon and his team page through the photographs, hoping to find another source as open and knowledgeable as Lion.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
With Bender on the stand, prosecutors paged through the couple’s financial records.
—Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
Mann is like Robert De Niro’s character in Heat, who, preparing for a heist, sits down casually at a lunch counter to page through a phonebook-thick tome about the metals his crew has to blast through.
—John Semley, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
For those of us who still love to page through actual cookbooks — see our staff picks for our favorite 2023 cookbooks — this week has been particularly exciting in Los Angeles.
—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
The space itself is outfitted with hardwood floors and natural woods, Art Deco-style light fixtures, and even a comfy window seat for paging through Aftel’s incredible selection of antique books, with titles like A History of the Use of Incense and Spices and How to Know Them.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
Previously customers shopping for tires for their car spent somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes with a Sam’s Club associate paging through manuals and looking up specs on websites.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2019
Cooper began to page through old Film Forum calendars, an archive of her frequently prescient taste.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
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“Page through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/page%20through. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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