| 1. | And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | He screwed up his seeing eye to scrutinize the messenger more carefully, as if wishing to read in his face what preoccupied his own mind. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | In a few moments the young girl had attracted the attention of the whole house, and even the occupants of the boxes leaned forward to scrutinize her magnificent diamonds. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | All this was prepared beforehand on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | Tuppence took it and scrutinized it carefully. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | Dolly scrutinized that simple gown attentively. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | Sir James took it, and scrutinized it attentively. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 10. | It was handed to the jury who scrutinized it attentively. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 11. | But when she had scrutinized her, seeing her closer, she was at once reconciled to her riding. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 12. | Tuppence snatched the two precious envelopes from him unceremoniously, and scrutinized them carefully. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 13. | The couple seated themselves on the opposite side, and intently but surreptitiously scrutinized her clothes. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 14. | He looked at me keenly, and seeing the negative in my face, turned to the others, and scrutinized them closely. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 15. | Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said-. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |