Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: scanned
IPA transcription: [sk'ænd]
Usage examples
  • Miss Carlyle compressed her lips as she scanned it.
  • They scanned the cabin once again, scrutinizing each familiar object.
  • In a rapid glance she scanned his figure that beamed with health and freshness.
  • I took up the telescope and scanned the whole horizon, and found it everywhere a desert sea.
  • Followed by Captain Nemo, I climbed onto the platform, and from there my eyes eagerly scanned the horizon.
  • Then she scanned me up and down, as if I were a girl in a mantle shop, and she contemplated buying either me or the mantle.
  • The major scanned the boy from head to foot, then answered emphatically, 'I wouldn't take a boy with a face like that for a good deal!'
  • I scanned the water and the borders of the lake for signs of life,—more particularly, I may as well admit, for a certain maroon-colored canoe and a girl in a red tam-o’-shanter, but lake and summer cottages were mine alone.
  • Duncan soon detected their searching, but stolen, looks which, in truth, scanned his person and attire inch by inch; leaving no emotion of the countenance, no gesture, no line of the paint, nor even the fashion of a garment, unheeded, and without comment.
  • Was it the strangely pellucid light that gave the effect, I wondered; and knew it was not, for as I scanned her covertly, there fell upon her face that shadow of inhuman tranquillity, of unearthly withdrawal which, I guessed, had more than anything else maddened Ventnor into his attack upon the Disk.