How To Use Skip In A Sentence

When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
They also caught a couple of large kingfish and many skipjack.
She did it again and then did a little skip. The Sun
Retrieve the lure rapidly in skips and skitters over the tops of lily pads, along log edges, and above the weeds. Bait and Switch
Just because the clothes are less formal, that doesn't mean you skip regular clothing maintenance like ironing and washing.

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In fact, I found myself reluctant to skip any topic in the book.
The vessel has an aluminium deckhouse with skippers cabin, CO2 room, casing, ventilation and Hi-press room.
He skipped bail and was caught trying to steal a chicken sandwich and some plasters. Times, Sunday Times
I could skip around the postings and suss out what I wanted.
In fact some of today's most well-known teachers were skipped one or two dans during aikido's early years.
While we are at it we should skip most of the stuff comingout of Turtle Bay — actually maybe we ought to just skip Turtle Bay altogether. The Volokh Conspiracy » United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child:
She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps.
She had often told others that they would be the ones to skip off and leave her; they would be the ones to ignore her over the boy.
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Then follows a comparison of the performance of the main categories of skippers: Burghers, Chinese, Malays and the most important group of Sulawesians.
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Another injury victim, Andy Heald, sees a specialist this week over his sciatica, but former skipper Davey Luker is unlikely to feature again this season due to work commitments.
he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
Australian Natalie Ward was the first to put a run on the board in the eighth innings when Simmone Morrow bunted the ball and a throwing error by the Chinese allowed her to race to second base while Ward skipped home.
With their secluded anchorages and bights, Anacapa and the other Channel Islands fairly beckon sailboat skippers.
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Models from the Louise Morton Model Agency of Huddersfield will be on the catwalk for the fashion shows, which take place four times each day in the Skipton Building Society Fashion Pavilion.
Some authors aim at a narrative of drama, skipping the plateaux of family life or inner thoughts and move through a series of peaks of achievement.
If you are perusing the buffet table, skip the items that are loaded with calories and fat, such as dressings and gravy. Durangoherald.com
I'd like to smile and skip down shopping lanes whistling cheerfully but it just isn't in me.
He fails to get the exercise his body needs and is so enwrapped in his world of cyber heroes and villains that he skips meals too.
Willis also skips over the secular and leftist politics that led Catholic ethnics and working-class voters to take their distance from liberalism and the Democratic Party in 1972.
Each yacht carries knowledgeable skippers and crew members. Times, Sunday Times
Clive Tyldesley growls randomly as Davids skips past a defender.
Four deleted scenes are skippable, including one random one at a bus stop.
I think they may have skipped "The Thief in the Tower" because it abbreviates to TTITT. Disney's Animated Film 'Rapunzel' Changes Title to 'Tangled' « FirstShowing.net
Why you should skip it: When you know you can have only one plateful, chances are you will pile it sky-high.
As there was no abatement of the blows of the boat against the embankment, no reply nor explanation, a shot from the gun of one of the levee-watch came skipping lightsomely over the water as The Crucial Moment 1911
But FAA regulations require that if a mandatory inspection or other so-called airworthiness directive is skipped, the aircraft must be pulled out of service immediately until the work is done. Southwest Could Pay Record Fine to FAA
It enjoys a quiet position near the centre of this pleasant village, just off the A19 Selby Road, little more than a hop, skip and a stagger away from the popular Greyhound pub.
Even cheapskates would never suggest that you skip special dinners out, such as those celebrating anniversaries or job promotions.
On return home, was remembering my brother's good suggestion that changing mouse mat might be the answer to the frantic behaviour of the cursor on my desktop machine; since I bought the desktop an emac, with optical mouse it has skipped around erratically at seemingly-random times. Wriggly thing in hair
The place is justly famed for its antipasti and the final limoncello; you might want to skip straight from one to the other.
Similarly, drying skipjack (a small Pacific fish in the tuna family) or shiitake mushrooms substantially increases their existing umami levels.
This Saturday you can avoid hundreds of unnecessary calories by skipping the pigskin (literally and figuratively) and saying yes to fitness.
His heart skipped a beat with joy and he then wondered if it made him pathetic.
A newspaper reader can select what he is interested in and skip what he thinks is boring or irrelevant.
No, thanks. We'll skip aperitif.
Done with maneuvers, a US Navy aircraft carrier skipper decided to let his crew vote on which port to visit for shore leave.
But now not many people have elevenses, or a formal pause at any other time in the working day, skipping lunch and grabbing a snack when they can.
At the end of the lines, he strung his artificial lures, big lures that resembled skipjack tuna when striking the surface of the water. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
He skipped past two tackles to race into the area, but was foiled crucially at the last moment by Paddy Martin, the big Kilglass No.4.
Swallowtails, cabbage whites, skippers, and orange sulphurs follow scent trails to the tiny patches of flowers blooming furiously in the middle of the city.
All he had ever seen of Skipton was, as a boy, pressing his nose to the windows of a charabanc as he and his family passed through the town on the way to their annual holidays in Morecambe.
Chops, our de facto Kiwi skipper and engineer, makes another valiant attempt to get it going with the starter cord.
Gorgeous and classy, but routine was a little skippy. The Sun
Pool, led from the front by their new Australian skipper Simon Dart, are showing good early season form.
He wished the crew, skippered by black yachtswoman Cole, good luck, adding: "We'll watch. ANC Daily News Briefing
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Some butterflies they attract are spicebush swallowtails, monarchs, fritillaries, whites, skippers, and a host of others.
Holliday is among several hitters, especially Cardinals such as infielders Skip Schumaker and Brendan Ryan, who have worked with McGwire in previous offseasons. Org. report: Cardinals ready to mentor a pair of masters
He was off-colour during England's opening match against France, which his country lost in the dying seconds of the 93-minute thriller after skipper David Beckham muffed a penalty.
Skip drove all night, and by morning we were in Florida, the Sunshine State.
Better yet, I could skip all the hustles and put on a real money-making outfit.
He also served a term as rural dean of Skipton.
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In response, he skipped school for ten straight days so he could practise and improve his skills.
Try the mango pudding, which came on steaming dry ice, but skip the affogato, which tastes like coffee grounds mixed with milk and sugar. Finicky Traveler: The Gramercy Park Hotel
The driver of the skip wagon told police he had waited several minutes while another vehicle left the weighbridge.
It is important not to skip meals.
Although the vessel was listing to starboard, the skipper continued towards a small island in spite of warnings from the group.
A similar exercise is being undertaken in Skipton, although the two projects are unrelated.
Cars waiting to turn right on to Carleton Road from Skipton hold all the outgoing traffic up as cars coming into Skipton won't give way on a green light.
Rubbish littered the site, along with burned-out cars and refuse skips, huge piles of Tarmac and garden rubbish and gas cylinders.
The boxer gave a little skip as he came out of his corner.
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You can easily modify the Rope iterator to accommodate skipping forward by more than one character at a time.
For those of you who prefer untempered late-night ire, skip to the original post.
We were thoroughly sated and decided to skip dessert from a list which included the usual Italian suspects such as tiramisu.
No other kind of skipping rope works. Times, Sunday Times
With a sigh of relief he recalled how lucky he was on the night he disposed of the clothes in the skip.
When performing face lifts, plastic surgeons may opt to undermine the skip flap less to decrease the risk of slough, which results in a less than optimal lift.
The first half of the story (when Captain Veda was driven by revenge and when there were lots of plot twists) was better paced than the second half (the time skips were much larger and the revenge took a back seat to the new galactic threat), but even so, it still doesn't get much better than this. REVIEW: Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds
After all, some of them had to have skipped class to attend the sit-in.
Meanwhile, fashionmonger Marc Jacobs is skipping over beefy bottom brackets and instead harnessing the awesome marketing power of p-fars. Bicycle Marketing: Survival of the Beefiest
Heaven bliss the owld gintleman -- he had a habit of stopping in the middle of an exciting part and lighting his dudheen, and then when he'd begin again, he'd skip over a part on purpose to make us ax him a question ---- Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
There was no narrative or overt expressiveness in the movement, which consisted mainly of high-energy skips and swoops.
Steven Sippila, skipper of the Sinikka, and his deckhand Scott Boyle have been busy this week preparing their equipment and bait for the busy 13-week season.
The flotilla usually comprises of 8/10 boats, one of which, referred to as the lead boat, carries a skipper, hostess and an engineer.
Jest like a criminal he skipped, an 'aimed to defalcate Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
Further muddying the picture, the spread of radiation has been fiendishly unpredictable, skipping some areas and showing up in concentrated hot spots elsewhere. Murky Science Clouded Japan Nuclear Response
Had to set parameters when I found him growling, tied to the table leg with a skipping rope round his neck. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
Skipton has scaled back mortgage lending dramatically. Times, Sunday Times
I skipped starters and had the goulash soup instead, but had a nibble at the other two's plates.
My mother's from Colombia, so I grew up waking up on Saturday mornings with my mom blaring cumbia merengue music, cleaning the house and skipping around.
For the first season ever I have started skipping the results show and am feeling a little guilty about my waning loyalty - your vlog was the perfect compromise. "American Idol" results -- vlogged!
This outfit is also ideal for school bonito, skipjack, average sized dorado, roosterfish and needlefish.
Dame Judy Dench, when asked by a British newspaper what she still wanted to accomplish in life, replied without skipping a beat: "The only thing I want to accomplish is to go back to Newfoundland. My Canada - Today and Tomorrow
And off we strolled, whistling merry Christmas tunes, and with only the very slightest of hops, skips and jumps in our step.
The MDS-JE510 also features a Jog Dial for split-second track access, allowing users to skip forwards or backwards through tracks.
Either spacetime could be made to fold, skipping ninety lightyears and putting the colony ship only seven years away from the earthlike planet that was its destination, or the ship would obliterate itself in the attempt . . . or nothing would happen at all, and it would crawl on for nine hundred more years before reaching its new world. Pathfinder
If I skipped the peanut butter on the celery, would I lose more weight?
The number of lines skipped after each breakpoint can be modified using the SKIP option in the BREAK command.
I'd like to take a quick moment to thank YouTube for the skippable pre-roll ad.
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Boat skippers can cause mishaps on the water with similarly rash behavior.
In reading a novel, he generally skips over all the long descriptive passages.
It was like listening to somebody trying to play a trombone at the bottom of a swimming pool, and meantime some bosthoon in black tights is skipping around the fountain tossing things into it.
You skip school, they only keep you back a year.
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Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral How to get back to nature when camping
She handed me a skipping rope and off we went. The Sun
He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (_forwards_) -- 'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (_backwards_) -- 'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.' Moon Lore
The company's systematic deception involved six owners and skippers of fishing vessels and an auctioneer. Times, Sunday Times
I did see ads, but they weren't skippable, so I abandoned the videos.
Of the 26 voters who participated last week, Skip Away received the nod from 15.
We may skip the hocus-pocus part of the article and go directly to its conclusions.
Halbert was aye skipping up and down like a roo, and his brother used to sit in the chimney nook with his book and sic-like trash -- But the lad was like a loaded hackbut, which will stand in the corner as quiet as an old crutch until ye draw the trigger, and then there is nothing but flash and smoke. The Monastery
Many hardboat skippers have PCs by the helm, displaying electronic charts, plotting their position from a GPS interface and even steering the boat's auto-pilot.
She gave a little skip of joy.
Her vocabulary was composed of simple runs, skips, and jumps; large, expressive gestures and playful mime.
Delete up to the first embedded newline in the pattern space. Start next cycle, but skip reading from the input if there is still data in the pattern space.
The streets are quiet and treelined and full of skippety cats, and the city centre just ten minutes' walk away. Times, Sunday Times
There, the commercial fishermen patiently wait every year for the annual migrations of albacore, skipjack, yellowfin, big-eye and bluefin.
You feel better if you skip a meal. Alternative Health Care for Women
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Begin each lifting session with a 5 to 10 minute warm-up session by rope skipping.
Imagine stodge in the middle of August, when all you want is a dainty cucumber sandwich and a bowl of strawberries before skipping off for a game of tennis.
He skipped past the defender's despairing lunge.
Meanwhile, visitors to Skipton were treated to a weekend of entertainment at the town's second Waterways Festival.
He should see the recycling skips near Bingley law courts.
Skipper Stewart Drummond headed over from a corner, Danny Carlton hit a snapshot over the bar when he looked a certain scorer, Chris Lane saw his header come back into play from the crossbar and Lee Collins miskicked in front of a yawning net.
She walked to school that morning with a slight skip in her step.
After skipping their way into the Guinness Book of Records, six Waterford-based athletes have expanded their group and are limbering up for another arduous challenge - a marathon relay from Malin to Mizen Head.
Recording is prone to skips if you use your computer heavily while it's recording.
They skip the rigidity of the academy for something more natural and less satisfying.
I was on the swim team and I had my bathing suit on (I skipped after school practice) so I stripped down to the black one piece I had on underneath.
Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow, or shower; The Iliad of Homer (1873)
She decided to skip the afternoon's class.
But, generally speaking, I'd rather my skipper took their cues from the Little Corporal than the Iron Duke. The Most Influential Innings of the Decade
The counter was brought in a sideways blow to the neck, that which Hyman just barely dodged by skipping back.
IV. iii.148 (410,8) [How will he triumph, leap, and laugh at it?] [W: geap] To _leap_ is to _exult_, to skip for joy. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Skipping its famous thali, I sampled the mithai at the ‘1916 Kesar ka Dhaba ’, tucked away in the intestine of an old bazaar.
What will also nettle Waugh is Ricky Ponting's success as Australia's new one-day skipper.
A jump is only executed, if the skip, force-complete or complete operation is successful, for example, no runtime exception occurs.
I sometimes skip lunch if we're very busy.
To me, Li'l Shia seems born for screwball comedy; he has a ring-a-ding Joey Bishop-on-amphetamines style of delivery that never skips a syllable. Michael Bay, movie-making maverick?
The judge said he was concerned the youth was a fire raiser after hearing that he was seen peering round a corner at the firefighters and was cautioned for a building skip fire when aged 12.
But the Doctor had turned on his heel and was almost skipping along the right-hand corridor.
The reserve is also home to a large number of butterfly species including green hairsteak, dingy skipper and dark green fritillary.
Holly : Mom, watch me skip rope!
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But even as he skips over subjects and themes, Kureishi has always returned to his own life for inspiration.
It seems so worried about maintaining a breakneck blockbuster pace, in fact, that it skips out on drawing any kind of emblematic story or character-building in favor of VFX-filled action sequences that effectively amount to nothing. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” worst of the comic book series so far » Scene-Stealers
More cryptic but equally fascinating are the mudskippers, a gobioid fish that climbs out of the water into mudflats and even climbs trees. Sundarbans mangroves
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Let's skip over these details and come to the main point.
We then skipped desserts, but accepted a Pernod as the nightcap.
I approached it again, this time dimpling the water with a stick, and the strider burst into a long run of skips like a skimming stone.
He finished with career best figures of six for 122 and after the match received his county cap from skipper Dermot Reeve.
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When Lacuna anesthetizes him, it will repeat endlessly in a recurring dream, skipping like a needle on a scratched record.
(Skip to the 5: 00 mark of this clip and you can see the scandalously underrated Jules Munshin satirize the Food Network, still a half-century in the future.) Archive 2008-03-01
The distressed skipper heard an aside which sounded something like - ‘that tells us a lot’.
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She skipped and frolicked and danced around the deck, her shift flying in the wind.
The wretched survivors told rescuers the boat 's skipper abandoned them - although it was unclear last night how he managed to flee. The Sun
As the prisoner and his escort left the car, O'Reilly made a dash for freedom by skipping over a fence and jumping into the sea.
In this case the trailers are for Mystery, Alaska, Outside Providence, and Happy, Texas and are skipped using the chapter search button on most remotes.
Silsden got off to a flyer with former Guiseley skipper James Nettleton heading in the opener following a sixth - minute corner.
He had an amazing escape when he was trapped under a 30-ton skip for 90 minutes and emerged with hardly a scratch.
The skipper of their dive boat sent a Mayday to Humberside Coastguard at 5.15 pm after the two had returned to the boat.
The skipper treads water as a Navy diver waits for a line to be thrown from the Oryx helicopter.
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Often, skippers advocate old fish as best, but my experience proves otherwise with fresh chum being the most effective.
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Returning to the women's side, skip Marika Bakewell was voted by her curling peers as the all-star skip for the tournament.
If you get skipped stitches with a universal needle, change to a ball-point needle for heavier fabrics or a stretch needle for finer knits.
It made me very mad when news channel skipped my brother's story for some rich person's dog who was dognapped.
The wantaway skipper, 33, last week handed in a transfer request after club chiefs rejected a new long-term deal. The Sun
Use Find Next to skip a single match you do not want to replace.
A discreet virtuoso, Yates adapts skipping folk-fiddle melodies to trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, and his engaging themes – full of light, fluttering figures – are compatibly supported by Bende's bell-like chording and Byrne's galloping low-register sounds on the bodhran drum and Latin-American cajon. Neil Yates: Five Countries – review
Skipper hustled away in midfield and helped the defence. The Sun
Because it can be injurious, it is not designed (as Behe said, Darwin skipped the 'not beneficient' or 'not omnipotent' choices). Behe
A rotary mechanism for multi-angle skip bucket of dump truck is designed. Goods is lifted and dumped by hydraulic system in the dump track.
The handsome bay had a lot of brilliance, but a times lost his focus, including skipping into the canter in his first medium trot.
We nicknamed her Skippy cos she skips around when she dances!
Firmly baste, too; none of your enormous floppysloppy basting stitches that look like someone left a skipping rope lying around.
And Graham Gooch's first lieutenant Stewart, the Surrey skipper, will be a key witness at a committee of inquiry.
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The few times I drive to work, I usually park in the cheap lot just a hop skip and a jump from there.
Bruno thinks it's too "skippy," but loves the posture and confidence. TVGuide.com: Breaking News
He'd two schooners fishin 'the Labrador in the season, a share in a hundred-ton banker, stock in a south coast whale-factory, God knows how much yellow gold in the bank, an' a round interest in the swiler _Royal Bloodhound_, which he skippered t 'the ice every spring o' the year. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
The art of sailing is defined, except on the open basins, by the skipper's ability to estimate from the water's surface patterns what the surrounding hills are doing to the wind.
Lars taught me to skip rocks, and soon I was better than he was, much to his chagrin.
The people in this school can't skip a rope even if it's lying on the floor.
Residents in Sutton-in-Craven, near Skipton, woke up to torrential rain and fast-flowing water outside their front doors yesterday.
The ads are skippable after five seconds.
Her heart almost skipped a beat as she saw him turn around and look her straight in the eye, his face beaming with a somewhat demure smile.
It makes no sense to skip your smear test. The Sun
For men say that the young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something, others uttering all sorts of cries. Laws
There may be trouble ahead but so far employment has not skipped a beat. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of leaving when their initial terms are over, many of the temporary visitors are extending their stays and even making Skipton their permanent home.
Something kind of crested up out of the water ... and we pretty quickly realized it wasn't a tuna," said Bruce Sweet, the vessel's skipper. Tennessee inmates subject to immigration checks

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