Not necessarily buying

Usage examples of browsing.

The size of small dogs with long, trailing tails, these fast, solitary runners, browsing on leaves and fallen fruit, were ancestors of the mighty artiodactyl family, which would one day include pigs, sheep, cattle, reindeer, antelope, giraffes, and camels.

There was True Timothy, the king of the palliards, a vast browsing figure, whose paunch stuck out beyond the others like a flying buttress.

She takes her seat at the helm of Rackham Perfumeries and waits for a few minutes, tidying stacks of paper, browsing through The Times.

What he needed was a ladder, but his only attempt to leave the pinetum to look for one had been foiled by the sight of a rhinoceros browsing in the rockery and of a lion sunning itself outside the kitchen door.

He went looking for one, prowling along the walls of the hangar, browsing through equipment and tools.

A quaintish village straggled away on the right, and on the left the dark, fat meadows were lighted up with misty sun spots and browsing sheep.

As I stood browsing at my bookshelf, Reamy wandered into the room to see what I was up to, so I compared my memory of the poem with his.

Steeds were browsing in the shade, with loosened bits, but saddled, ready at the first sound of the bugle to skirr through brake and thicket.

Wilson Tenney or some other cruel loner up here, browsing, maybe even buying.

There would be no hours in the library, browsing through books collected, not only by the House of Treves, but by the House of Kaullis before them.

Livestock wandered aimlessly, browsing on the standing grain, while unmilked cows bellowed in agony.

Sergeant Hoekstra had met more of his girlfriends in the Athenaeum, while browsing for books, than anywhere else.

Ever charmingly on his closing eyes dawns the prospect of the aboriginal elysium, a gorgeous region of soft shades, gliding streams, verdant groves waving in gentle airs, warbling birds, herds of stately deer and buffalo browsing on level plains.

The browsing roos gave them cover and, as often as not, sent gladrats and grubroots right into those waiting jaws.

Well-heeled Greys and meritocrats traveled from thousands of kilometers some, thousands of light yearsjust to spend several days browsing among the myriad of shops in each area.