skimmed

Example Sentences

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Morning after morning, residents would retrieve the bottles of milk on their stoops only to find that a thief had skimmed off the cream.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025

They’re skimmed over, but not in a manner that feels reluctant or incurious.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024

I’d already studied a lot of this stuff, but I skimmed over it again now to refresh my memory.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline