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EN[ɹiːd] [-iːd] [ɹɛd] [-ɛd]
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    Examples of read in a Sentence

  • Examples of read
    1. When I read the report, without delay I fired off a letter to the editor.
    2. I don't really read French, but I can often guess enough to get the drift.
    3. I'm very busy, but when I get the time I'll read through your proposal.
    4. Smith, who’s still mulling over ways that she can “go Galt,” sees a possibility for a moral stand. During the Iraq War, she read about a painter who’d painted less, reducing his income, in order to dodge taxes and thereby make sure he didn’t fund the war.
    5. They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.
    6. I do not grok all fullness of what I read. In the history written by Master William Shakespeare I found myself full of happiness at the death of Romeo. Then I read on and learned that he had discorporated too soon – or so I thought I grokked. Why?
    7. "The idiot apparently adds spaces to people's names to prevent kibozing. It doesn't help when you're replying to me in a newsgroup I read; I'll find that article just fine. Besides, I don't kiboze." [2]
    8. He logged on, read the front page, and signed in.
    9. Overoptimizing the source code of a computer program may yield insignificant performance gains while making it difficult to read and maintain.
  • Examples of reads
    1. Arabic reads right to left. ‎
    2. That sentence reads strangely.
    3. Priya, 17, has chosen to be a slumdog, and her life reads like a film script.
    4. It’s a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the crackpot right.
    5. The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it. ‎
    6. The computer reads in a program file from disk and executes the contents.
    7. We also eliminated unigenes with no uniquely aligning reads, leaving 83,705 unigenes in the final root-tip transcriptome.
  • Examples of reading
    1. These are good times for the astonishable reading public.
    2. A basal reader is a kind of book that is used to teach reading.
    3. (Mr. Johansen confirmed this, though it did not stop him from donning reading glasses to look over Mr. Coes shoulder at the score in proper composerly fashion.)
    4. If it had a flaw, it was in a tendency toward workaday tepidness. Mr. Maazel, for his part, gave a focused, dignified reading, and forbore from striking his repertory of conductorial poses until the score’s final page.
    5. The room was too dark for reading. ‎
    6. The pages in his favorite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.
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