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[ UK /skˈɜːtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈskɝtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being all around the edges; enclosing
    his encircling arms
    the room's skirting board needs painting

How To Use skirting In A Sentence

  • The new film just seems to be skirting round things; it hasn't been brave enough.
  • Legislation is needed because existing criminal law does not adequately address upskirting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Skirting the village, the group crossed a little canal and came under intense mortar fire.
  • Walls are white, offset with bright yellow doors and skirtings.
  • Of course under some circumstances you find yourself skirting the edge of obscurantism.
  • By the end, players will find themselves skirting around gaping chasms and outracing avalanches while being battered senseless by Mother Nature's best.
  • Each unit has kitchen and toilet facilities, together with lighting, heating and three-compartment skirting trucking for maximum flexibility.
  • The time seems to have come for Japan to stop skirting this essential question.
  • Some said they were victims of upskirting or had photographs taken down their tops. The Sun
  • It's possible Doc sought to ride us round them, skirting their flank without looking left nor right to acknowledge their being there.
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