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Meanings of leaf through in English

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Usage of leaf through in English
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With one ear cocked toward the front door, I leaf through them.
The life you've imagined
2
Therefore we might as well leaf through the phone book, right?
The sonderberg case
3
He would leaf through its pages when he was bored, looking for stories.
Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth
4
I picked up the M3C file again and started to leaf through it.
Exit wound
5
I picked up the manuscript and began to leaf through it.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
6
Rafe watched her leaf through them before she looked back at the priest.
Iron lace
7
Why don't I leaf through the address book and you look over my shoulder?
Man in the Middle
8
I opened the book and began to leaf through it.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
9
I began to leaf through the manuscript, my skin crawling.
Bag of Bones
10
To leaf through its illuminated pages is to watch the child grow to manhood.
The Guardian
11
She knew that Simon often came just to leaf through her husband's dog-eared old books.
The hangman's daughter
12
He began to leaf through some papers describing the disposition of the various Allied armies.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
13
Only a few men sit in chairs, and leaf through stacks of glossy election pamphlets.
The Guardian
14
I mooch around, pick up a book, leaf through its pages, set it down again.
The Irish Times
15
Hoffman and Michaelson sat down to leaf through them.
Coalition's End
16
MS: Speaking of women's media, recently I had the opportunity to leaf through several women's magazines.
Feminist dot com
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Leaf through through the time
Leaf through across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common