skim

“If my remaking was skim plaster, she feared, it would crumble. It would not hold me into adulthood.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

I’ll skim a monologue like a speed reader, then I go back to look at specific words.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

Beyond Rufus, Amazon’s AI helps sellers to make their pitches more presentable, and shoppers use it to get fit recommendations, skim highlights of customer reviews, and search for objects by pointing their cameras at them.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

His analysis of these cases is shallow and often dubious; Barrett highlighted unfounded inferences in Thomas’ skim of the historical record, questioning his generalizations from a handful of archaic decisions.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

Her skin is the bluish color of skim milk, and her hair is as white as fresh-fallen snow.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle, it skims along the earth’s atmosphere and can maneuver, making it less predictable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

Ramsey’s book is just one arm of the multi-pronged complaints that have been lodged against her, grievances that “Shark Whisperer” only skims the surface covering.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025

The screenplay hits the big moments and skims the details, but it also leaves room for director Thomas Napper to lean into flashes of lyrical dreaminess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

The plane skims across the water and can load up to 800 gallons in about 15 seconds, Cuthbert said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

Or, rather, she skims the pages and sees that the content is all about the same: How could you?

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

According to prosecutors, McCluskie, Williamson, and another consultant skimmed $225,000 from one of Becerra’s dormant campaign accounts and funneled it to McCluskie through various entities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

If it appeared on a menu, I skimmed past it.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

The drop was driven mainly by falling cheese and butter prices, due to ample supplies and strong global competition, while milk powder prices edged higher, supported by renewed import demand for skimmed milk powder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Based between an ancient burial mound and a rusting tin hut, the men stood on top of a nuclear fallout bunker, while aircraft skimmed them at terrifyingly low altitudes.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025

She skimmed along under the surface like an otter.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Michael Jackson showed off his signature move, the moonwalk, on television in 1983, skimming backwards across the stage to his No. 1 hit “Billie Jean.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

When reading this advert, you would be forgiven for skimming over the words "first-steps", as a turn of phrase.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025

The shimmering and pellucid choreographic poem presents its central woman as if arriving on a breeze by way of skimming steps on pointe and ultimately exiting as breezily as she arrived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

Instead of casually wading into the shallow end, skimming the surface with tepid bits of history about Mansfield’s life and career, Hargitay opts for a cannonball.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

I heard her steel runners skimming the ice.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell