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
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
But that is still only skimming the surface.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
Sure, those are private matters, but skimming the surface like this only serves to bolster an image of an actor reformed.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025
I imagine my mother and father sitting beside a fountain, under the spray of water, their feet skimming the concrete bottom.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
