How to Use scrutinize in a Sentence

scrutinize

verb
  • I closely scrutinized my opponent's every move.
  • Her performance was carefully scrutinized by her employer.
  • Many states have not yet had the chance to scrutinize the deal.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2021
  • There will be much to scrutinize Biden over in the years to come.
    — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Late in the first half, Fears was scrutinized again.
    — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Who would have thought a beer name could ever be scrutinized so much?
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • They get scrutinized all the time in the media.
    — Mike Jones, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Third, scrutinize the right levers.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time Bieber’s health has been scrutinized.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 26 Feb. 2025
  • At times it has been scrutinized, scaled back, or delayed.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Write your hook and rehook, then scrutinize the words.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Now everything is a text to be scrutinized, whether the work can bear it or not.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
  • His play from game to game is scrutinized, but not without reason.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
  • This sport is so tough because you’re scrutinized to the sharpest of margins.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • That’s why the banks’ forecasts for the year ahead will be closely scrutinized.
    — Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Whitmore isn’t the only one who has scrutinized the trend.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The rule will be scrutinized by a federal judge.
    — Courtney Rozen, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • One doesn’t scrutinize where meaning comes from too closely, right?
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Post-draft outlook Day 2 of this draft will be what gets scrutinized most.
    — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • But there are so many more players and so many more answers just waiting to be scrutinized.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The income side of the equation tends to be the side buyers scrutinize.
    — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • This is a good day to scrutinize your finances and make some decisions.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Some scrutinize their own world for clues, while others look out at the farthest horizons.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 2021
  • There’s no crucible more scrutinized in the sport than the Olympic Games.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • But courts may scrutinize how a tracking device is being used.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Intrepid fans scrutinize each new snippet of footage frame by frame to find clues about the show's future.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Other governors have had their use of the state plane scrutinized.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2019
  • And yet, by and large, YouTube’s game plan of giving less to scrutinize has worked.
    — Evelyn Douek, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
  • We are allowed to obtain, inspect and even scrutinize these records.
    — Steven Potter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In just a few short years, Mescal has become one of the busiest and most scrutinized actors in the world.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2026

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