page through

page through
phrasal verb [transitive]
Word forms "page through":
present tense I/you/we/they page through he/she/it pages through present participle paging through past tense paged through past participle paged through mainly American
page through something to turn the pages of a book, newspaper, or magazine quickly without reading or looking at it carefully. The usual British word is leaf through

She sat in the waiting room, casually paging through glossy magazines.


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