sheltering

Example Sentences

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They stopped bucking the wind and ran skeltering with it, in dismay.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Then came a hurried skeltering, for the first, second and third classmen were entitled to leave during the month of September.

From Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

A young lady skeltering off on her bicycle to meet her young man—why, what could the bicycle make of such a mystery, if you explained it till doomsday.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)