skirt
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She’s in a vintage black linen skirt, with a top that’s also vintage black linen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
In February, a tearful Dean climbed the steps to the Grammy stage, floofy white skirt trailing behind her, to accept the award for best new artist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The following day, Deivi spotted a piece of fabric in the rubble and recognised it as his grandmother's floral skirt.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Does “Don’t Say Good Luck” skirt around the grim realities of cancer as cavalierly as it paints a Pinterest mood-board vision of high school?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She reaches into her skirt pocket and pulls out a small book covered in pale leather.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Girls and women dress in ankle-length skirts or overalls, wearing their hair loosely covered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Last year, a beauty pageant contestant was commended for standing up to a group of men who tried to bully her and other contestants over the skirts and western dresses they were wearing.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Ken Billington’s lighting and Constance Hoffman’s costumes, which featured swirling flared skirts in different candy-colored plaids for the female chorus, added to the effect, as did Ms. Zambello’s direction, which emphasized thrust rather than sweetness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Such restraint today seems as quaint as poodle skirts and “I Love Lucy.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
We crept into the drawing room on all fours, not easy in these skirts.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Hawaii has been hit by flash floods and mudslides that have swept away homes after category one Hurricane Lala skirted Big Island over the weekend, leaving one person dead.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Economists say carmakers have either shortened or skirted the usual temporary summer layoffs to retool their plants because of robust sales.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
He skirted a question about whether closer New Zealand-India ties would curb Beijing's ambitions in the region.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
Oil fields largely skirted bombing damage, though pipelines, petrochemical plants and other infrastructure sustained hits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
I skirted fields, and hedges, and lanes till after sunrise.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
They moved between wildlife strongholds, skirting areas containing major human obstacles, including the capital, Lusaka, and heavily developed industrial areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The vehicles drove right over his fields at speed, tearing up the crops and skirting the fence by the family's garden.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Giant container ships ply sea lanes skirting the archipelago's southern tip, where roughly a third of global maritime trade transits between Asia, Africa, the Gulf and the Red Sea.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
The two-lane loop threads its way among forests and A-frames and cabins, skirting the waters of June Lake and the lake’s village, which is only a few blocks long.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
They tore across the vegetable gardens to the greenhouses, paused for a moment behind them, then set off again, fast as they could, skirting around the Whomping Willow, tearing toward the shelter of the forest....
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
