skittering

Example Sentences

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Djrum, the project of British musician Felix Manuel, issued “Under Tangled Silence,” an icily pretty record that combined jazzy and neoclassical piano flourishes with fleet and skittering drum programming borrowed from ’90s styles like jungle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

Danny Ocean types need not apply, but if you hear skittering jazz music as the soundtrack of desperation, your new favorite comedy is here.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025

I accidentally kick one sending it skittering across the floor, and causing a brief moment of excitement before I apologetically explain it was me and not a ghost.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2024

Witchdoctor, “A S.W.A.T. Healin’ Ritual,” a one-of-a-kind blend of Afrocentrism, voodoo imagery, unflinching street reality, off-kilter flows and skittering beats reminiscent of British drum-and-bass music.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024

He put Seabiscuit into a long, lazy warm-up, sailing past his skittering rival and galloping off the wrong way around the track.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand