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. 9, 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

And those looks are just skimming the surface.

From Salon • May 6, 2025

That’s not film analysis — it’s skimming along a surface.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

The challenge now is skimming and leaking without letting people know you’re doing it.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin