What is "scrutinised"

Usage examples of "scrutinised".

Solchaim was the first figure they scrutinised when the four came down the street towards them.

For a long time he scrutinised those remote blue levels and saw no more.

Then he came back to the American side of the island, crossed close to the crumpled aluminium wreckage of the Hohenzollern to Green Islet, and scrutinised the hopeless breach in the further bridge and the water that boiled beneath it.

One carried a gun and the other a hatchet, and they scrutinised him and his cudgel scornfully.

He looked up and scrutinised Davies and afterwards Mod as if they were not quite what he would have expected.

She said the word this time to herself as she sat up straight and scrutinised him.

To her I was first presented, and cursorily scrutinised with a stately old-fashioned insolence, as if I were a candidate footman, and so dismissed.

She turned her head and found herself being scrutinised by heavy-lidded brown eyes belonging to man riding a flaxen-maned chestnut.

Opposite Lilac Cottage, she stopped and scrutinised it, and Louise, anxious not to be seen at the window, shrank back and went into the kitchen to rinse her cup.