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

But that is still only skimming the surface.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

And those looks are just skimming the surface.

From Salon • May 6, 2025

That’s not film analysis — it’s skimming along a surface.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

Now his eyes fly to the list of names, which we’d tacked on the wall, quickly skimming through the families we’d never crossed off.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse