skimming

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“Oh yeah. Just like the summer before seventh grade, when we took my grandpa’s tents out to the shore, and you swore you saw a UFO skimming along the lake.”

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Now his eyes fly to the list of names, which we’d tacked on the wall, quickly skimming through the families we’d never crossed off.

From Literature

I heard her steel runners skimming the ice.

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The moon was almost full, and by its light I watched them fly to the lake, some dipping down and skimming the surface to drink.

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An ocean teeming with sea life, from tiny coral polyps to massive whales to birds skimming the surface of the waves.

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