skirt
Example Sentences
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Her dark blue skirts rustled as she walked, and her movements were quick.
From Literature
Millions of barrels of dark oil are languishing in tankers on the ocean, unable to find buyers as enforcement steps up and producers try to find ways to skirt the latest round of sanctions.
Mr Pearson recommended sealing gaps around skirting boards, letter boxes and even light fittings.
From BBC
China this summer sent a cargo ship to the Polish port of Gdansk by skirting the North Pole, a route twice as fast as travel times using the Suez Canal.
He was a nature-loving conservationist and an unrepentant big-game hunter, a Victorian moralist who betrayed his own party and skirted the law when it suited his purposes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
