- present participle of skim.
skimming
Example Sentences
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Readers less enrapt about the details of these might find themselves skimming sections about them, or those about operating-system updates and later iMac models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Cleanup teams are skimming and pumping oil from the tributary and deploying absorbent booms and pads to recover oil trapped along the creek bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
His troubled marriage to Dorothy Binney Putnam, an heiress, did not restrain him from skimming her fortune to defray his expenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
I don’t have a whole lot of what’s in there—I just have one big thing—but I know all about it from skimming.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
