thumb through

In the beginning there were several Asian-American independent bookstores that refused to carry the book after thumbing through it.

Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies. I'm above you, smiling as you, drown, drown, drown.

In moments where our concentration is broken it can be tempting to reach up into a bookshelf and start thumbing through a book.

As he was thumbing through it, he noticed a really neat adaptation on architectural possibilities using the LEGO Bricks as a medium.

Jeff Gordon, an attorney and small business owner at the time, just happened to be thumbing through the newspaper and saw the ad.

While thumbing through some of my resource files today, I ran across these ten business leadership principles.

Even just thumbing through my sewing and knitting books, or browsing Amazon for new releases, can be relaxing enough for me.

I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book, Genesis, which caught my eyes while I was thumbing through my Bible.

Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies, pushing all the mercy down, down, down.

It's like quickly thumbing through a magazine as opposed to staring at a table of contents.

But is watching a film any less valuable than thumbing through the pages of a book?

The suspect was thumbing through the telephone directory when one policeman detained him.

I was thumbing through a magazine when she walked in.

after a hasty thumbing through the pamphlet of instructions