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    Use "skimming" in a sentence

    skimming example sentences

    skimming


    1. that billows in skimming breezes,


    2. Belatedly, I send a thought skimming across the waves to the woman I never really knew … she’d have been about the same age that I am now … that thought stuns me


    3. The wind was sharpening now so I shoved my hands into my pockets and quickened my pace, darting about and skimming round the corners and making good headway till I turned a corner and almost ran into a large woman chopping wood right in my path


    4. It didn’t seem to bother him; he concentrated on skimming stones


    5. He’d told Angie a little about the dig, skimming over the nastier aspects, saying that it had been a wild goose chase – well, it wasn’t so far from the truth


    6. down the length of the river to see the NN helicopter almost skimming the water


    7. But my grandchildren had the best idea they used their flat surf skimming boards and that worked a real treat


    8. Dawn did as he told her and a clay shot high into the air, skimming over the tops of the trees


    9. How Peggy longed to be skimming over the snow instead of


    10. She had a slight advantage, she said with a wry, toothy grin: she knew the building intimately, having crawled through its every recess and been a life-long party to the tenant rumor mill, while the knowledge of the owner’s lawyer was limited to what little the skimming building superintendent had revealed and what was public record

    11. The man of the house was skimming through the paper and taking little part in the conversation


    12. A bartender he fired for doing a bit of his own skimming reciprocated by telling the owners what he thought Brian was up to


    13. In East Germany, courtesy of another Ministry of Information tour, he saw trainloads of crops that were the property of the people without any middleman involved, who previously got rich skimming the profits that rightfully belonged to the farmers


    14. ” She sidesteps her desk, skimming the surface with her finger


    15. He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent


    16. skimming over the pharmacy coupon, and stormed straight into


    17. Monica saw another boat skimming along the river with a water skier


    18. She was skimming my books


    19. At one point she joined me in the cockpit, leaning against the transom with her head back, a smile curving her perfect lips as she surveyed the cumulus skimming overhead


    20. Raider missed an elbow, skimming the Vapors head, who then

    21. He was in his car skimming through Mrs


    22. they all lived by skimming the tithe


    23. Lords, and they all lived by skimming the tithe


    24. Within months the mob is pleased with the results and blind to Avery skimming half the take before it leaves the country


    25. Being on a flying horse, skimming over the waves at a hundred miles an hour with the wind in my hair and the sea spray in my face—hey, it beats waterskiing any day


    26. He found a secluded area overlooking the northern mountains, and watched the clouds skimming across the mountain peaks, the mountains themselves looking gray and depleted


    27. Standing on the poop, he watched the serpent-like ship skimming lightly over the waters, and landsman though he was, it was evident to him that the Argus would never win that race


    28. These are the concepts of surveying, scanning and skimming,


    29. "Hey! An eggbeater! Heading right this way," he muttered, seizing the glasses and staring at the black flying machine skimming across the water


    30. Unconsciously, Garnet Reed was zigzagging towards the aerial machine skimming across the water

    31. The three escorts were skimming only about a hundred metres above the treetops as he continued to shadow their every move


    32. Steam shot out of the pot, skimming their heads, Musafir checked on the rice


    33. Then there is documentation of cash skimming in Tennessee and the resulting suicides of two state officials involved


    34. fact that Joey had been skimming money from me for the past


    35. Besides extracting the liquid, or skimming, there were suggestions about burning off the oil as well as using chemical dispersants


    36. barrels of oil had been reclaimed by the skimming equipment of Alyeska


    37. The crooks are not satisfied with skimming what the US buys for cash; they went into borrowing money (to up the cash available) and stealing that against the credit of the people of the United States


    38. Robertson then saw something that amazed and confused him: a Japanese ZERO fighter that had been diving hard to try to catch up with Ingrid’s P-40, which was going at a merry 300 miles per hour while skimming the sea and never flying straight for more than a couple of seconds, apparently miscalculated his altitude or his safety margin to come out of its dive


    39. The first American air attack on the fleet that day actually took place just before sunset, with over twenty P-40 fighters zooming over the beachheads at high speed and skimming the waves, targeting first the surviving landing barges and shooting them full of holes before the Japanese fighters on top cover could even react


    40. He then staged a victory flypast, coolly skimming just a few feet above the heads of everyone on the hill

    41. A bomb dropped by a diving B-25 struck and exploded on the NAGATO as the six RP-38Ns and six TBF-1s were coming within five kilometers of the battleship while still skimming the sea


    42. He ended his flight with a low, downwind landing approach, skimming the tops of the trees in the process, flying deep into the valley where he executed a spectacular, high bank, stalling, one hundred and eighty degree, hammerhead turn back into the wind, no more than a hundred feet above the football field, and coolly finished his flight with a pin point landing on the grass, right in the middle of the pack up area


    43. Wickland, who had been skimming the dossier again, replied, “Me too, but it is interesting that he apparently doesn’t have any priors


    44. She then looked towards the sea and opened her mouth wide from surprise: at least twenty strange machines with rotors pointed upwards were approaching quickly from very low altitude, nearly skimming the waves


    45. Their shuttle then flew off, skimming the flat, icy surface of Eris at low altitude while heading south


    46. He allowed the aircraft to drop below the deck line of the ship, literally skimming the water


    47. More than likely, it will just glance off our atmosphere and head back out into space, very much like skimming a stone over water, but, well, it’s hard to say, exactly, which is the outcome without further analysis


    48. around because of the favors she did for him, even though he knew she was skimming


    49. through the waves like a knife, skimming the water like a pebble


    50. He picked up a sea-smooth pebble from his feet, and sent it skimming through the air, low and













































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    Synonyms for "skimming"

    grazing shaving skimming skim

    "skimming" definitions

    the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid


    reading or glancing through quickly


    failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it


    the act of brushing against while passing