skate

Example Sentences

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What a shame, considering a three-dimensional approach might be all “Obsession” needs to skate past mediocrity.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

Another, whose identity we are not revealing, adds: "I want to see a skate park or a pump track or a dirt track – more that the kids can do and enjoy."

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Every student gets a MacBook Air—an upgrade from the midrange laptops given to most Swedish high-schoolers—and lunch is free at a cafeteria perched above a cavernous indoor skate park.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

The fast start followed two games in which the plodding Golden Knights watched the Ducks skate rings around them.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

God, I love it when a kid's nice and polite when you tighten their skate for them or something.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger