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skim through
verb as in glance
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Example Sentences
It's probably something most of us skip or skim through - but it's important to read the small print when you buy a ticket, says Harry Kind from consumer group Which?.
I skim through the text, which seems to be describing exactly what’s happening to me.
“If I’m on vacation, I’d love to read an actual print newspaper,” he said, “but in the everyday craziness of life, I will just take the hits and skim through it, and if it’s something of interest to me, I’ll click on it.”
After reading VanQuish’s loooong entry near the end, I flip back a few pages and skim through Agent Magnus’s paragraph to find that his talent for being tough-skinned got enhanced to steel-skinned after touching the Crystal Ball.
And a quick skim through Rangers' potential last-eight opponents will have you wondering if you are looking at the Champions League instead.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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