the example sentences provided with the words are really good (well some of them)

is there anyway to have a lookupo function for a word, outwith the study screen?

when im studying i sometimes forget to write down some of the examples. it would be good if i could search for a word and see the examples at anytime

You can type http://www.skritter.com/scratchpad?words=例子 to quickly pull up a word, or you can type a word into My Words search to pull it up: http://www.skritter.com/vocab/mywords

From there, the word popup is a click away, and you can see all the example sentences by clicking on the example sentence pencil in there.