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Manufacturers usually include cleaning tips and methods in that little paper booklet, and giving it a quick skim could help you avoid trashing the warranty.
HOW TO CLEAN A TV SCREENJOHN KENNEDYFEBRUARY 15, 2022POPULAR-SCIENCE
As a result, the brain might slip into skim mode when you’re reading on a screen.
WILL YOU LEARN BETTER FROM READING ON SCREEN OR ON PAPER?AVERY ELIZABETH HURTOCTOBER 18, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
All summer we have had three calves that came to the orchard fence twice a day to get their ration of skim milk and feeding flour.
THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDSPETER MCARTHUR
When the birds are done, skim off all grease, add the juice of a lemon, and serve hot.
DRESSED GAME AND POULTRY LA MODEHARRIET A. DE SALIS
You don't suppose, do you, I've had time since Tuesday to read all this through and skim off the cream?'
WANDERING HEATHSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH
In our own little book we have been compelled to skim lightly, and, in many places, to pass over subjects of great interest.
THE OCEAN AND ITS WONDERSR.M. BALLANTYNE
Now, I have made a calculation, and I am satisfied that Mrs. Skim can not possibly make much profit out of me.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUS
I could get a variety of delicacies for breakfast at the Clarendon, that are out of the question at Mrs. Skim's.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUS
Now, sleep at the Clarendon is an expensive article; whereas, sleep at Mrs. Skim's, is decidedly cheap.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUS
Here lay a broken spar half buried in the sand, part of the complex fabric that once enabled some fair ship to skim the waves.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELL
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO SKIM

  • boil
  • bolt
  • bustle
  • career
  • chase
  • compete
  • contest
  • course
  • dart
  • dash
  • fling
  • fly
  • gallop
  • haste
  • hasten
  • hie
  • hurry
  • hustle
  • lash
  • outstrip
  • plunge ahead
  • post
  • pursue
  • rush
  • scamper
  • scramble
  • scud
  • scuttle
  • shoot
  • skim
  • sprint
  • spurt
  • swoop
  • tear
  • whisk
  • wing
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