How To Use skim over In A Sentence
- He has one hour to skim over the newspaper everyday.
- But this is enough to sustain the heaviest man upon the softest snow, and an Indian thus "shod" will skim over the surface like a skater. Popular Adventure Tales
- Maybe look for skirts cut on the bias, A-line, anything to emphasize your waist as being small and skim over your hips.
- Suddenly, without my realizing it, my pen begins to skim over paper at a gangbuster pace.
- Ducks and geese frequent it in the spring and fall, the white-bellied swallows (Hirundo bicolor) skim over it, and the peetweets (Totanus macularius) "teeter" along its stony shores all summer. Walden~ Chapter 09 (historical)
- This is essentially a book for amateurs, and every amateur who is fortunate enough to be its possessor, or who may merely skim over its pages, will, we are assured, agree with us in regarding its author as being entitled to great praise for the simple and clear manner in which he has explained the cultural directions, which, if carefully complied with, will enable the non-professional floriculturist to grow plants as well as any gardener. Cattle and Cattle-breeders
- If you come across a reference to "the rabblement of lemmings" (a category that includes Marxists and feminists and anyone else who reads ideologically), get ready to skim over many patches of screechy diatribe. Reading Against the Clock: Belated Bloom Suffers Nobly