- present participle of skim.
skimming
Example Sentences
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Michael Jackson showed off his signature move, the moonwalk, on television in 1983, skimming backwards across the stage to his No. 1 hit “Billie Jean.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Readers less enrapt about the details of these might find themselves skimming sections about them, or those about operating-system updates and later iMac models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
But that is still only skimming the surface.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
Sure, those are private matters, but skimming the surface like this only serves to bolster an image of an actor reformed.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025
He was skimming them for the telltale flourishes of a particular rare alphabet.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
