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Meanings of skimming in English
Usage of skimming in English
1
He'd been skimming text after text, but he read this one twice:
2
Allen said seas were still rough but skimming operations should resume soon.
3
At noon that day the galley was skimming the sea off Paestum.
4
Daylight found him in the buckboard, skimming the prairies for the station.
5
That skimming drive, six minutes from the end, smacked of the inevitable.
6
She read quickly, her eye skimming the obituary, personal, and social columns.
7
Next a marsh hawk in brown plumage comes skimming over the grass.
8
They boil it down and evaporate the water, skimming off the impurities.
9
Oliver took off his hat and sent it skimming to the couch.
10
The thought came and went like a dragonfly skimming the river's surface.
11
There's enough clearance for us to pass through without skimming the surface.
12
I have lunch and hate-skim a blog I've been hate-skimming for years.
13
She could see the shadows of his feet skimming across that line.
14
Keep the lid close, except when you are skimming off the fat.
15
She could almost feel his long, clever fingers skimming over her skin.
16
Three big boats were skimming down the harbour like great white sea-birds.
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Skimming through the time
Skimming across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common