skimming

Example Sentences

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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 trying to tell Rivers’ whole story, “Joan” winds up skimming the surface.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024

That spring morning she had flown over the sea with her bare feet skimming the water, her boots in her pockets, the ocean spray flecking her ankles, laughing with the speed and joy of it.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell