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.
They will follow the tiny paths over the mountains and through the famous vineyards of Rioja before skirting the cities of Burgos, Leon and Lugo.
We've stripped wallpaper, painted, put up skirting boards, hung blinds, panelled ceilings and clad walls.
The issue over whether to criminalise upskirting is being decided in Parliament today.
The wooden theme continues from the floor to the skirting which runs around the walls.
He trotted the animal across the broken, empty landscape, skirting Toh-Chin-Lini Butte, moving southeastward toward the Ceniza saddle. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
They used to make holes in the skirting boards and come out and look at you. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
This is despite the likes of the Washington Post delicately skirting round the direct quote.
They used to make holes in the skirting boards and come out and look at you. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
One woman admitted she cleans her skirting boards with cotton buds, while another scoured the kitchen floor with steel wool for hours on end.
It was then that, owing to the pressure of numbers, the stone balustrade skirting the wall of the hotel collapsed onto the pavement.
We are next door, enjoying a glass of wine, skirting round the topic of the missing Christmas lights.
There will be sanded floors, optimum use of retained features such as doorframes and skirtings, all of historic quality. Times, Sunday Times
The government has promised to get tougher on harassment , particularly upskirting.
One fine May morning, William of Ockham was skirting the bosky woods, heading for open country in search of early mushrooms when a dragon alighted on the greensward not half a furling from him.
You should also use a sealing gun to close up cracks in floorboards, skirting boards and the like.
No doubt, some of these Californians applauded the fact that a woman who is skirting that mythic age of fourscore still has the wherewithal to perform, and to do it so well.
Your local builders' merchant will sell wood beading that you can paint to match the skirting.
Some houses will also have Arts and Crafts-style architraves, covings, skirtings and mantelpieces, while others will feature decorative ceiling beams and attic storage areas.
Another option is to disguise your radiators as skirtings.
He fared on days and nights over the Second Sea, till he came to a great mountain skirting which ran a Wady without end, the stones whereof were magnetic iron and its beasts, lions and hares and panthers. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The bead moulding of the skirting is only partly removed, as indicated, leaving a solid portion to which the muntin is skew-nailed. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.
The visitor had entered the compound from the west, skirting the shack, making for the whaleboat house. AMAGANSETT
In fact, as we take a closer look at that area, you'll see the rain kind of skirting the region, skirting Lake County at this time. CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2007
Carrying the heavy packs on our backs, we trekked for about four hours, skirting the borders of the village and stopping occasionally at chortens to pray for good crops and the prosperity of the village.
It may have been imported from all over the Empire to create skirtings, folding doors and luxury veneers, but my life mattered more. A Body In The Bath House
Just as she said now she said she's willing to engage directly in Iran and primary voters are really looking for someone that isn't trying to cruise on their laurels and they want to know where she stands on the issues and she's kind of skirting some of those issues. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007
The houses have fitted cherrywood kitchens, solid oak doors and skirtings and specially designed carved oak balustrades with full staircases.
They are an inspiration to those of us still stuffing mushrooms and washing the skirting before a full day in the office.
There is something a little sinister about it, amid that green and fecund landscape, with its skirting of pine and silver birch and the furze and bracken above.
I cannot rest until I am alone in the farthermost edge, wedge, ledge of the shop, great or small, lying along the skirting board, legs propped, reading.
The skirting and door frame will have to wait until the walls and ceiling have dried.
Teachers are seeing girls increasingly wear shorts under their school skirts to avoid upskirting.
Much upskirting occurs in public places, such as supermarkets and public transport. Times, Sunday Times
He said there is a 'case for making sure we've got something specific' to deal with upskirting. The Sun
= Coarse cloth of linen and wool used as skirtings by the British peasantry. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
They say that on the way to Trinkitat several of them were passed, and great care had to be taken in skirting alongside. Three Months in the Soudan
There are also plaster-skimmed walls throughout, regency paneled doors and a moulded skirting.
This is kind of skirting, maybe the Turner Field area on southward where the greatest threat of this storm is right now. CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008
the room's skirting board needs painting
Finally, glue or nail an edging strip to the skirting board.
There were long skirtings of dark pines around a portion of the Squire's property, and at the back of the house there was a thick wood of firs running up to the top of what was there called the Beacon Hill. Can You Forgive Her?
The chippies also added skirtings, trimmings and painted the walls, giving the 1920s accommodation a real boost.
He knew the rules, and he knew he was skirting them by openly defying a federal court order.
Starting work always in reentrant corners, putting the skirting board in the mitre box, cutting mitre inwards with hand saw. Chapter 6
Our tiny bus wound up through the Inguri Valley whose precipitous road hugged cliffs and ravines, worming through crude tunnels and skirting thick forests.
There is underfloor heating in four zones on the ground and first floor rooms of Raleigh North, while all the doors, architraves, moulded skirting, sills and stairs are solid teak.
Use a sharp knife to trim round fittings or skirting boards - obviously this needs to be done with care.
There are also plaster-skimmed walls throughout, regency paneled doors and a moulded skirting.
Slowly we progress across the crimson lakes of sand, silver pools of sand, enormous hillocks of sand, skirting giant rocks and stubbornly vibrant patches of thorn bush.
We shall be skirting the island on our way.
The two men rushed rapidly down the halls, skirting past servants and other court members.
They climb through an airbrick and down a skirting board, only to die on the carpet, to which they stick. Times, Sunday Times
Inside, walls are finished in tinted plaster, with no skirtings against the floors, which themselves are of polished pale concrete.
So of evenings he carved small plates of bone, none above the size of a finger-joint, to fit the double-sewn lining of the armor he intended for her: pigskin outside, on the shoulders, soft deerskin inside, and little lozenges of bone sewn into the lining of the shoulders, down the back, and around the ribs and on the skirtings. 2005
You walk into the house on shiny wooden floors, topped by rounded skirtings and fluted ceiling with subtle, concealed lighting.
She was a victim of upskirting by an unknown man while in a shop with her partner.
Which is a bit like discussing childbirth while skirting around the difficult business of mothers.
We then proceeded skirting the hill, and descended subsequently to the _O_. rivulet, which is of no size. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
The doorframes and skirtings were made up as cheaply as possible. Times, Sunday Times
They climb through an airbrick and down a skirting board, only to die on the carpet, to which they stick. Times, Sunday Times
Though the government has promised to deal with drug abuse, it has been accused of skirting round the issue.
A ban on upskirting is set to become law.
Traffic officers have received a number of complaints that drivers are skirting the barriers.
You do the doors and windows, and let 'im do the cupboards and skirtings.' The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
He has destroyed carpets, doors, frames and skirting boards in every room.
Bedbug lairs can be anywhere, from telephone handsets and electrical goods to crevices in wooden furniture or behind skirting boards.
My second choice in dog would be the Blue Heeler, which is a more brutal animal which tends to drive the stock from behind (ie, running backs in NFL) rather than skirting like brown kelpies (like wingers in rugby union). Cheeseburger Gothic » Calling all Texans…
Mushrooms, some 4-5 cm high, have also been growing out of hallway skirting boards on the 9th floor.
IKENNE, Nigeria — After driving two hours — skirting truck-size potholes, fording a flooded town and dodging a body — Pieter Swanepoel arrives at a dilapidated farm about 50 miles from Lagos, Nigeria. Catering to New Tastes as Incomes Climb
I'll do the skirting and door frame tomorrow, and also the bathroom door frame and radiator.
Use masking tape to get a clean line along skirting boards and edges. Times, Sunday Times
He made straight for the house, skirting it, only approaching to examine the corner where the telephone cable entered the building. AMAGANSETT
Going braless around the house not caring that the twins are sweeping the skirting boards. Times, Sunday Times
They tapped the walls and sounded the skirtings, but without success. The Mystery of the Four Fingers
The pale wood squares form a crisscross structure that runs around doorways, along skirting boards and across floors.
Replacing skirting and architraves is a good way of upgrading a home with minimum outlay.
Even if you're not old enough to remember The Jetsons cartoons or Doc Brown's flying DeLorean from the Back to the Future movies, the idea of skirting above the rooftops in your very own aerial sedan is still mighty appealing. Flying Car Dreams Take Off--Again
Of course under some circumstances you find yourself skirting the edge of obscurantism.
They have just hung new doors throughout our house, and fitted new skirting boards in our hallway.
Alice started toward the dodgem cars, skirting the ring-tossing and rifle-shooting games, cutting round the back of the Kamikaze. Kiss & Break Up
Soon they were skirting along the coast towards Louisburgh as bonfires blazed along the road.
They used to make holes in the skirting boards and come out and look at you. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Women have come forward with their stories about upskirting.
I thus contend that, on this matter, Volokh is skirting the central issue.
I happened one day to pass along the lane I have described as skirting the garden of the manor-house, on my way homewards to my farm; and on plunging my eyes, as usual, into the verdant depths of the clipped yew-walks, visible through the iron-palisades, was struck by the contrast afforded to the scene I had just witnessed, not only by its aristocratic tranquillity, but by the grave and subdued deportment of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
Each unit has kitchen and toilet facilities, together with lighting, heating and three-compartment skirting trucking for maximum flexibility.
Skirting round the rutted concrete circuit, the path continued beyond the airstrip. Country diary: Tempsford, Bedfordshire
Oh, look, they just bumped hips skirting around that table.
Female teachers were also the target of 'upskirting', she said. Times, Sunday Times
One or two have been skirting with financial disaster. Times, Sunday Times
I'm really skirting around the issue here, because I'm afraid to say it.
The howlers were skirting the scary precipice of extinction.
Ministers are being urged to extend a proposal to ban upskirting to include other acts of misogyny. Times, Sunday Times
They used to make holes in the skirting boards and come out and look at you. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Along the scenic route skirting the rim we stopped at every lookout to gaze at the fantastic scenery.
But the solution does not lie in skirting around the edges of the problem, but rather, diving directly in.
Trim off the excess at the ceiling and skirting board. Times, Sunday Times
For this money, you expect shadow gaps rather than skirtings, and lighting that appears magically, like the dawn. Times, Sunday Times
On reaching the lane I have so often described as skirting the gardens of the old Hall, I noticed, through the palisades, a person, probably one of the gardeners, sauntering along Lady Robert's favourite yew-walk. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
‘Actually it's Jessie leaves the hooooouse time,’ I caroled back, skirting out of the kitchen.
Nurses triaged Mama through cause they saw she looked like she was skirting the boneyard. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
Skirting boards bloomed with sockets as deadly as they were dated.
Gaps between the floor and skirtings can also be filled in this way. Times, Sunday Times
The tops of the skirtings, the mouldings of the doors, the sashes of the windows and the corners of the floors were thick with the accumulated dust of years. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
They all responded by skirting around the issue trying not to point of the finger of blame.
Penny Miller, London N16Skirting boards and cornices at the wall-ceiling joint are also a way of softening the cognitive dissonance that occurs when the retina provides curves that the optic lobe knows are straight lines or flat planes. Notes and queries: Pecking order: chicken's favourite snacks; skirting board as cognitive dissonance softener; Byron's trudge across the Tagus
But in some ways it's almost as passionless as the characters skirting their emotions and desires.
At a turnout by the road skirting the bay, I got out.
Goods manufactured under this classification include cotton warp checks and mixtures; all wool homespuns, mixture coatings and suitings, storm skirtings, rainproof cloths. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
What was Adams thinking when he hired a man with a checkered past and a history of skirting the rules?
Sweater had made from time to time and on several occasions had taken a lot of trouble to get just the right tints of certain colours, making up a number of different shades and combinations, and doing parts of the skirtings or mouldings of rooms in order that Mr Sweater might see exactly -- before they went on with it -- what it would look like when finished. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
General composite floor, including the purchase of the installation costs, while skirting board and be close.
A photograph of an electric cord running across a red wooden floor with yellow skirting board and white wall looks just like one of his simpler paintings.
Refit the skirting boards with the uncut board placed snugly in the corner and the shaped board lapped over it.
Upskirting is a mischief that parliament needs to address. Times, Sunday Times
Traditionally, skirting boards are nailed to the wall using oval or lost head nails which can then be punched into the board.
The two choppers from the Alaska Air National Guard's 210th Rescue Squadron climbed carefully over the layers of Mount McKinley's clouds while skirting the glacier.
Yet the map shows a broad swathe of relatively flat land skirting the foothills of the mountain at the 100ft / 33m contour, and extending up to Bundoran.
The law does not currently adequately protect victims of upskirting.
So we drive the car home like Ma and Pa Kettle headin 'for the big city in their jalopy which is skirting all over the road. Unclebob Diary Entry
On top the slabs are rendered over to seal them, then covered with oiled mulberry paper to leave a perfectly smooth yellow continuous surface turned up at the skirting.
He had ripped cupboard doors off their hinges and charged at walls and skirting boards.
A monster makes bigger holes in the skirting board!
I've never done any 'upskirting' in my life, and now they're trying to make it illegal. The Sun
It would have involved ripping out a bit of skirting board to give us another half-inch of room and then bodging the tracking so that it ran pretty close to the wall.
Whether or not that's true, this kind of skirting of the line on race makes GOP establishment figures very nervous these days. Does Haley Barbour have a "bubba" problem?
Thursday : Steamed off the ceiling paper and the underneath layer of the woodchip, removed the quadrant moulding from the bottom of the skirting boards and the battens above the window to which the curtain rails had been attached held on with 4″ screws, the heads covered with 30 years of paint. Running-free week
Where the skirting board butts up against a doorframe, check that the angle is true and, if not, use a sliding bevel to measure the angle of the cut and mark on the board.
‘I thought you didn't want to talk about it,’ Brett replied, skirting past the real discussion on hand.
What was Adams thinking when he hired a man with a checkered past and a history of skirting the rules?
The luxuriant coast bordering on the southern extremity of the lake and skirting the peninsula of Michigan and southwestern Ontario -- though comparatively flat -- is not void of charming features; being lined with numerous pretty villages imbosomed among gentle slopes that were covered with the richest verdure. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
Sheriffs' posses were sent from the mainland with arrest warrants, but Strang, with the help of his lieutenants, evaded capture by skirting the island's shores in a ramshackle boat.
Zoologists have been accused of skirting round the subject for fear of stepping into a political minefield.
Sometimes being physically ill or unwell over a protracted period until you're moving over or at least skirting closely along the line into invalidity can bring on a state of melancholy.
We can send out the powerful message that upskirting is unacceptable.
How well I remember my son's first day at school: the stomach ache the night before, the paralysing shyness at the gate, the skirting round the edge of the playground not making eye contact.
Moving coving, skirting, electrics or plumbing would incur additional costs. Times, Sunday Times
The visitor had entered the compound from the west, skirting the shack, making for the whaleboat house. AMAGANSETT
She claimed an overhaul of the law would help cut anti-women crimes including upskirting and online trolling.
The hills are hornstone and quartz, stratified and dipping southerly with a very high angle; they are very barren, and evidently identical with those on the south bank of the Soane; skirting, in both cases, the granite and gneiss range of Paras-nath. Himalayan Journals — Complete
Pine forests succeed for 2000 feet higher, when they give place to a skirting of rhododendron and berberry. Himalayan Journals — Complete
Painting walls, skirtings and architraves in the same colour tone, and being bold with darker shades. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, that was the sound of the bell hung from within the cage-like framework surrounding the buoy, which is moored on the edge of the shoal skirting the fairway leading into Portsmouth Harbour. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
He proves to be an enthusiastic cheerleader, without skirting over the hard work and determination required to land a job in this industry.
Sixth comes the river Hypakyris, which starts from a lake, and flowing through the midst of the nomad Scythians runs out into the sea by the city of Carkinitis, skirting on its right bank the region of Hylaia and the so-called racecourse of Achilles. The History of Herodotus
My clever ploy of skirting the issue with talks of tutoring hadn't worked.
And indeed he was, moving with renewed energy, skirting the occasional patches of snow and ice which had begun to appear as their elevation increased.
Figures show only 11 suspects were charged in 78 upskirting incidents reported since 2015. The Sun
They took a few more paces across the crater floor, skirting a fresh-looking craterlet about the size of a beach ball's indentation. Moonwar
Use masking tape to get a clean line along skirting boards and edges. Times, Sunday Times
Can we airbrush out that newspaper tacked onto the skirting boards, please?
The buildings within the walls were mostly wooden, though some were raised on stone skirtings, and there was one built all of stone that was probably the chapel. The Pillars of the Earth
Floors throughout are restored eight inch wide pine planks with natural wood skirting boards.
I can already see the big oil companies skirting their away around a Clinton or McCain initiated windfall profit tax. New Obama response spot on the gas tax
Each unit has kitchen and toilet facilities, together with lighting, heating and three-compartment skirting trucking for maximum flexibility.
In certain neighborhoods of Havana and the villages skirting the city, cherubic black Marys and Christs are worshipped.
We came home yesterday to find ants marching along the hall carpet and scurrying around the skirting boards.
He took the younger man's arm and dragged him on, skirting slowly round the "dead finish" till at length, late in the afternoon, it gave place to boree. The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas
We've stripped wallpaper, painted, put up skirting boards, hung blinds, panelled ceilings and clad walls.
Use cable clips to fasten the cable to skirting boards or other trimming.
Going braless around the house not caring that the twins are sweeping the skirting boards. Times, Sunday Times
The guerrilla athenaeum, which appeared this spring at the intersection of Leonard and Withers streets in Williamsburg, has clapboard siding and sits on a hand truck chained to a one-way street sign—a clever skirting of city regulation by its founder, 31-year-old artist Colin McMullan . Guerrilla Librarians Making Noise
Trim off the excess at the ceiling and skirting board. Times, Sunday Times
The white paint of the skirting-board and the picture-rail could be, and the paintwork of the door and the window-frames. William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter
For attitudes to change, much more needs to be done to raise awareness of the impact that upskirting has on its victims.
Narrowly averting collision with unlighted harbor-boats, bumping at times over sandy shoals, plowing through grass-grown mud-flats and skirting dangerous reefs with only the smallest margin of safety, they came at last to the jettied outlet of El Diablo
They moved in a general northerly direction, skirting towns as they found them, avoiding the main roads and a couple of times detouring some distance where towns controlled a bridge or ford to find a place to cross.
Oak doors lead you from room to room and the brushed-steel fittings and solid wooden skirtings add style and sturdiness.
Alexis paddled in, and skirting them put the raft away and went up to the villa. COUP D'ETAT
Further skirting round a definition of jazz, Dyer drops this fabulous description of Thelonius Monk approaching the piano.
The chippies also added skirtings, trimmings and painted the walls, giving the 1920's accommodation a real boost.
And he should avoid the word knowingly, which Barry Bonds scattered about in his federal grand jury testimony with the hope — ultimately futile — of skirting a perjury indictment. A Meeting of Aging Lions
Keep a simple, light background and paint skirting or baseboards and mouldings in a contrasting shade.

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