skimming

Example Sentences

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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

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

To list even the most notable of your credits would not even be skimming the surface of your extensive resume.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2025

Heavy cans full of fuel for the planes were attached to her wings and stacked up in the rear cockpit, weighing down the little Po-2 so that skimming the treetops was even more hazardous.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein