Translation for "skim through" to spanish

Skim through

verb

• hojear

Translation examples

hojear verb

Cutler and Vasquez and some others were skimming through some unsorted files.
Cutler y Vasquez y algunos más se habían puesto a hojear unos documentos junto al archivo.

I took down the contents of a shelf, sat at the reading table and began to skim through the publications.
Vacié un estante, me senté frente a la mesa y comencé a hojear las publicaciones.

They relied on her and only skimmed through the documents out of a sense of duty before invariably following her recommendations.
Confiaban en ella, se limitaban a hojear los documentos por obligación, antes de seguir sin excepción sus recomendaciones.

Austin gave Joe the file on the legal businesses, told him to shout if he saw anything interesting, and begin to skim through the other file.
Austin le pasó a Joe la carpeta de los negocios legales y empezó a hojear los documentos de la otra.

"Jones found this little lot in Mrs. Goode's studio." He pushed the papers towards McLoughlin and waited while the Sergeant skimmed through them.
Jones encontró este paquetito en el estudio de la señora Goode -empujó los papeles hacia McLoughlin y esperó hasta que el sargento los hojeara-.

‘I cannot stay long,’ she had announced when she arrived and settled down to skim through the finished parchments, ‘in case it snows.’ ‘It will snow.
No puedo quedarme mucho tiempo hoy —me advirtió al llegar; en seguida se puso a hojear los pergaminos terminados—, no sea que vuelva a nevar. —Nevará.

Heart-stopping though it was to read those words, they had less impact on Roy Emerson than an awesome triviality he noticed when skimming through the earlier volumes.
Aunque era emocionante leer esas palabras, tuvieron menos impacto en Roy Emerson que una tremenda trivialidad en la que reparó al hojear los volúmenes anteriores.

For a few hours once he asked the mice to show him what Param had been reading, and he skimmed through the books, finding that she was, indeed, reading histories of the Sessamids.
Durante las primeras horas les pidió a los ratones que le mostraran lo que había estado leyendo Param y al hojear aquellos libros descubrió que, en efecto, estaba leyendo la historia de los Sessamid.

The only way of passing the time was to skim through piles of magazines which he’d already seen, and which were difficult to handle as they were ultra-light-weight editions apparently printed on cigarette paper.
La única manera de pasar el tiempo era hojear montones de revistas que ya había leído, muy difíciles de manejar, pues se trataba de ediciones extremadamente ligeras, impresas en papel de fumar.

‘I cannot stay long,’ she had announced when she arrived and settled down to skim through the finished parchments, ‘in case it snows.’ ‘It will snow. The berries are thick in the hedgerows and that always means a hard winter.’
No puedo quedarme mucho tiempo hoy -me advirtió al llegar; en seguida se puso a hojear los pergaminos terminados-, no sea que vuelva a nevar. –Nevará. Las bayas de los arbustos están gordas, y eso sólo anuncia un crudo invierno.