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    Use "skirting" in a sentence

    skirting example sentences

    skirting


    1. It was a pity that no-one had thought it worthwhile to worry that the skirting boards didn’t line up where the dividing wall had obviously been taken out


    2. Keeping my eyes down, I mull over the statement … the last Element? What is he talking about? I haven’t retrieved the last one yet … He goes on to describe how we were pursued by Antis, escaping through Joris’ skill, though stopping short of mentioning that Joris actually killed two men and completely skirting over the actual cause of Joris’ death


    3. Without a word, Berndt turns along a trackway skirting the edge of Gloster, leaving the town on our right and striking across the valley towards the river


    4. In no time at all, I was skirting pot-holes and diggers, tearing down the new road past sunlit villages towards the airport


    5. He is skirting the Ohmu Inn and running directly for Miner’s Hold


    6. The torch gave good light and he made reasonable time for about half an hour, striding across the rough grass and moss, skirting any reeds he came across


    7. He tramped on, skirting pools of stagnant water – thanking his stars that he hadn’t blundered into one of those in the darkness


    8. They parted on the road skirting the amphitheatre - the


    9. Though it was actually skirting an ancient burial ground of block-shaped crypts, she’d pretend it was the crossroads


    10. During the day, when Shelagh was busy tending her garden, or working in her greenhouse or dealing with her 'callers', as she preferred to call her patients, Rosemary would take long walks, skirting the village as much as possible

    11. She stood on a dark stage with dark silk skirting where she danced in front of the three musicians who were also Torvellen


    12. Ten minutes later, I was heading around the backside of the house, skirting the wood-line like I always have, making my way up past the garden where I had helped plant, weed, and spread manure throughout the years


    13. By midday they were in the bottom of the valley, after skirting the forest


    14. They passed the last of the city’s industrial buildings and crossed the railroad tracks skirting the lake


    15. The enemy crossed the Cobre Hills at daybreak, and skirting the bay, entered the city during the truce


    16. Over the next two weeks they proceeded to strip the wallpaper in all the rooms, remove all the skirting boards and clear the house of all the furniture


    17. The cottage should be on the other side of the field he was skirting


    18. He crossed over a long ridge of moorland skirting the side of a high hill


    19. ous waters, skirting disaster


    20. trees skirting tremorously the shining earth

    21. Skirting the screen was a honeybee, trying to find an opening into which he could fly


    22. Skirting the truth to be sure, yet true enough to avoid compromising my honor, I think, because even before you passed the border I could tell that the Illusions and Force barriers of the Wards were not affecting you


    23. Once out the gate, they turned left skirting the edge of the town of Bien Hoa


    24. The path from the cave would lead them away from the village and round to the south-west, skirting the winter fields and the edge of the wood, but this would take longer


    25. Focusing on the other man’s face, he concentrated again, this time more deeply, and found himself skirting the forefront of the Overlord’s mind


    26. skirting behind buildings to listen for where the two children


    27. Niels, with his eyes skirting restlessly around the room,


    28. You drive through a traffic light skirting through just on the yellow to red transition


    29. Then I will probably head west, skirting around the south of the city by backroads and then taking the Freeway


    30. It was a strange journey, in that black, slim craft down the great river for nearly two hundred miles to where the Khorotas swings eastward, skirting the Poitanian mountains

    31. Skirting the extremities of the hills that locked the Valley of Lions, they swung wide to the west


    32. The Hyrkanians were not convinced; three more invasions burst upon the Zamorian borders, and the Lands of Shem, and were hurled back by the Aquilonians, though the Turanian armies grew larger as hordes of steel-clad riders rode out of the east, skirting the southern extremity of the inland sea


    33. Before the attacks of the Nordheimr and the Cimmerians, they destroyed all their cities, butchered such captives as were not fit to make the long march, and then, herding thousands of slaves before them, rode back into the mysterious east, skirting the northern edge of the sea, and vanishing from western history, until they rode out of the east again, thousands of years later, as Huns, Mongols, Tatars and Turks


    34. Quickly skirting the first building the pair headed for the second structure about 100 yards away


    35. He made no comment when the nurse fell but did stop as she struggled to her feet, then with a grunt continued in a southeasterly direction skirting the edge of a dank patch of saw grass interspersed with patches of dark water


    36. Skirting the eastern edge of the deeper water, the Indian plunged into knee deep water and felt a tremendous relief as his moccasins sank into the Everglades muck


    37. Curly Pete searches the floor frantically and finds the screw up against the skirting board


    38. back, skirting the town as best they could


    39. Skirting the wrap-around porch were beds of flowers


    40. She felt excitement rise in her as her group approached the eastern coast of Luzon, skirting the coastal town of Mauban from the North

    41. After skirting around Teotihuacan, we caught up with the rear guard Jodas had posted


    42. Avoiding all State Weight Inspection stations by carefully skirting around them on


    43. My bet is that this is an enemy solitary plane, probably a reconnaissance aircraft, skirting the Spanish border and using the Pyreneans to confuse our radars


    44. A frightened stag might move thus through forest and briar, skirting old growth oaks


    45. By the time that someone answered her after her third call, she was skirting the eastern coast of Spain at an altitude of forty kilometers and a speed of 8,300 kilometers per hour


    46. They are skirting the outer permiter, gauging defensive capabilities and security sensors


    47. much longer than he would have wished skirting Amazon Country


    48. flaking out and skirting her duties to the company


    49. It wasn’t the most scenic of routes, as they travelled along the north shore of the lake, skirting the foothills, but there were occasional spectacular views of the snow-capped mountains across the water


    50. ‘If you have nothing to do, the skirting boards need a wash






































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    Synonyms for "skirting"

    encircling skirting

    "skirting" definitions

    being all around the edges; enclosing