skittering

Example Sentences

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Unusually, her unique production style, full of skittering breakbeats and sugar strand melodies, is entirely self-taught.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

At first, “Dust Bunny” feels a little light, the story skittering across its densely designed surface, with very little dialogue in the first half.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Djrum, the project of British musician Felix Manuel, issued “Under Tangled Silence,” an icily pretty record that combined jazzy and neoclassical piano flourishes with fleet and skittering drum programming borrowed from ’90s styles like jungle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

The skittering, chiming percussion boiled over into a stomp-around jam, hitting like a horns-blasting march down Beale Street.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

But at long last a sound of skittering came from far up our front passage.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck