skimming

Example Sentences

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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

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

His troubled marriage to Dorothy Binney Putnam, an heiress, did not restrain him from skimming her fortune to defray his expenses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 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

There we sat, draped like tired bridesmaids with our yards of white veil, numbed by the airplane’s horrible noise, skimming above the treetops.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver