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Meanings of skim along in English
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Usage of skim along in English
1
The boat seemed to skim along as lightly as a sea gull.
2
She seemed to skim along the grass as if on tiptoe, and vanished.
3
We, with our broad rackets, could easily skim along without sinking below the surface.
4
I arch my neck and his fingertips skim along my collarbone, strong but gentle.
5
As the service proceeds, I skim along the text and find myself feeling sorry for God.
6
Doc tossed his slim, shiny case, causing it to skim along the ground toward the creature.
7
No, I'd rather be a butterfly, and then I can skim along faster and move my wings!
8
He seemed to himself to skim along above the surface and to have no connection with the earth.
9
To skim along on waters blue--
10
He has learned to ride over land and sea and even to skim along the currents of the air.
11
I'll just skim along here.
12
And then men began to skim along the edge of the plaza, dodging in among the orange trees and houses.
13
Three times they swooped low, to skim along just over the crest of the waves, only to tilt upward again.
14
We can skim along.
15
At sundown the vampires, bats and goat-suckers dart from their lonely retreat and skim along the trees on the river's bank.
16
Force the reader to read close, maybe read twice, not just skim along a surface of abstract images, short-cut adverbs, and clichés.
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Skim along across language varieties
United Kingdom
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