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
When reading this advert, you would be forgiven for skimming over the words "first steps", as a turn of phrase.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
The shimmering and pellucid choreographic poem presents its central woman as if arriving on a breeze by way of skimming steps on pointe and ultimately exiting as breezily as she arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Instead of casually wading into the shallow end, skimming the surface with tepid bits of history about Mansfield’s life and career, Hargitay opts for a cannonball.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025
In a few seconds he was followed by his younger brother Billy, who at age twelve was noisier and had an annoying habit of skimming rocks across the grass at anything that moved.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
