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Idioms and Phrases
Turn pages, as in browsing or searching for something. For example, There she sat, leafing through the various catalogs . This expression employs leaf in the sense of “turn over the leaves of a book,” a usage dating from the mid-1600s.Discover More
Example Sentences
This consisted of inhaling the fumes of the leaf through a Y-shaped device applied to the nostrils.
As you look at those documents—would you leaf through all the pages I have mentioned?
She drew a long palm leaf through her fingers and let it fall regretfully.
This can be seen very plainly by looking at a common mallow-leaf through a microscope.
He must have known—for news such as this travels from leaf to leaf through the forest.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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