read Examples
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- Examples of read
- When I read the report, without delay I fired off a letter to the editor.
- I don't really read French, but I can often guess enough to get the drift.
- I'm very busy, but when I get the time I'll read through your proposal.
- 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.
- They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.
- 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?
- "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]
- He logged on, read the front page, and signed in.
- Overoptimizing the source code of a computer program may yield insignificant performance gains while making it difficult to read and maintain.
- Examples of reads
- Arabic reads right to left.
- That sentence reads strangely.
- Priya, 17, has chosen to be a slumdog, and her life reads like a film script.
- 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.
- The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
- The computer reads in a program file from disk and executes the contents.
- We also eliminated unigenes with no uniquely aligning reads, leaving 83,705 unigenes in the final root-tip transcriptome.
- Examples of reading
- These are good times for the astonishable reading public.
- A basal reader is a kind of book that is used to teach reading.
- (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.)
- 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.
- The room was too dark for reading.
- The pages in his favorite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.
Examples of read in a Sentence
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