skirting

Example Sentences

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Skirting of required tests surfaced last year at Daihatsu Motor Corp., which makes small cars and is 100% owned by Toyota.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

Skirting the southern edge of the city, the wildfire tore through 190 acres of still-dormant grass on the snow-speckled foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2022

Skirting the pitfalls of revisionist history, it is fiction neither as plodding realism nor as implausible feminist anachronism, but rather something in between and beyond: a rigorous, living vision of what could have been.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2021

Skirting the truth, Berman said, is easier than ever.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2019

Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams