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

Where this story takes place — which metaphysical realm it’s actually set in — is skimmed over entirely.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 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

Based between an ancient burial mound and a rusting tin hut, the men stood on top of a nuclear fallout bunker, while aircraft skimmed them at terrifyingly low altitudes.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025

I skimmed through the article for the key details.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen