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How To Use skew In A Sentence

• To avoid leaving the center posts in the permanent work, two rows of temporary posts were placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were built, and the posts were removed, as shown by Fig. 2, Plate LX, before placing the remainder of the lining. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
• Over this long weekend in Melbourne I've been researching Indian mid-tier (50-1000 employees skewed towards 5yrs+ comp sci education/experience), good at open source, B2C, web2: Not the big BPO/B2B focused Satyams, Wipros and Tatas, or the elance $1000 dodgey script dudes. How Will the Indians Fare at The Web 2.0 World Cup Cricket ?
• Hannah's remembrances of things past, however, are sometimes skewed by subtle dissonances and a sense of anxiety that disturb the apparent placidity of his picture-perfect world.
• The "gaucho" approach to meals suits me well: every few moments there was another skewer of luscious beef, lamb, ribs, or whatever coming by to be loaded on my plate. Medlogs - Recent stories
• The picture on the wall is a bit skew.
• Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
• So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? Finding the Next Winner
• Thus, we can use measures of skewness for distributions of expression differences for classified genes to discriminate between models.
• He skewered his victim through the neck.
• Secure the loose skin with fine skewers, or just tuck the skin underneath. The Sun