Instead of "turned the pages," one could use a variety of antonyms to describe how they interacted with a book. One might "skimmed" or "flipped through" the pages to get an idea of what the book was about. Alternatively, someone could have opted to only read specific sections of the book, in which case they may have "selected" or "narrowed down" the pages they chose to read. If one struggled to read the text, they might have "stared intently" or "struggled to decipher" the pages. While "turned the pages" is a common phrase, there are plenty of other ways to explain how one reads or interacts with a book.

What are the antonyms for Turned the pages?

• v.

  • skim
  • pour
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Famous quotes with Turned the pages

• I cried out. I turned the pages, one after the other, in a frenzy. I could not believe what I saw, would not believe it. For the pages of the book were blank. Oh, yes, there had been writing, this much I could see, but the inks had faded. Now there were only faint smudges and marks here and there on the yellowness. And I could tell nothing from them… It came to me, as I walked, how bitter the irony of the Book had been which had said: Herein the Truth. For it had a truth of its own in its bleached barrenness. What was truth except something which faded, lost its shape, grew unreadable and indistinguishable, at last a blank page for men to write on what they wished.

  Tanith Lee
• Slowly he turned the pages, scanning the pictures and the text for a repetition of the combination B-O-Y. Presently he found it beneath a picture of another little ape and a strange animal which went upon four legs like the jackal and resembled him not a little. Beneath this picture the bugs appeared as: A BOY AND A DOG There they were, the three little bugs which always accompanied the little ape. And so he progressed very, very slowly, for it was a hard and laborious task which he had set himself without knowing it — a task which might seem to you or me impossible — learning to read without having the slightest knowledge of letters or written language, or the faintest idea that such things existed. He did not accomplish it in a day, or in a week, or in a month, or in a year; but slowly, very slowly, he learned after he had grasped the possibilities which lay in those little bugs, so that by the time he was fifteen he knew the various combinations of letters which stood for every pictured figure in the little primer and in one or two of the picture books.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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