PORE in a Sentence

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For PORE, below is one of 26 sentences:
He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drop's one's scissors, or anything that happens.

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 Meanings and Examples of PORE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pore
 v.  gaze intently; stare; scrutinize; read or study carefully and attentively
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  He's a mighty pore farmer and he knows it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
2  And when he come to this country and was pore, that didn't scare him a mite neither.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  And when the war come on and his money begun to go, he warn't scared to be pore again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light that had served them to pore over many ponderous books.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
6  A cold perspiration burst from every pore, and his hair stood on end.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
7  "I'm sure I am," echoed Amy, poring over the engraved copy of the Madonna and Child, which her mother had given her in a pretty frame.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
8  The bitter check had wrung from me some tears; and now, as I sat poring over the crabbed characters and flourishing tropes of an Indian scribe, my eyes filled again.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
10  She never tired of poring over fashion-books.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
11  He could not grip the floor with his feet and sat heavily at his desk, opening one of his books at random and poring over it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate knowledge of all details he will light upon some clue.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drop's one's scissors, or anything that happens.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
14  She approached her face to the palm, and pored over it without touching it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  Over this document the family pored long, while Ona spelled out its contents.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  Determined to become a physician, Beth spent hours to pore over her anatomy text.
2  The diameter of the pore is so small that it corresponds to that of a single ion.
3  He spent much time in the library poring over an ancient tome.
4  The artist pored over every drawing,trying to guess who drew each one.
5  The size of your pores is determined by the amount of oil they produce.
6  The pores of your body secrete sweat.
7  Sweat exudes from the pores in the skin.
8  Ever present, they absorb the viscous lava of contempo culture through their pores, let it course through their veins ‘til a diffuse plexus of melodies and rhythms form, and then release the bubbly potion onto an unsuspecting audience.