skirting

Giant container ships ply sea lanes skirting the archipelago's southern tip, where roughly a third of global maritime trade transits between Asia, Africa, the Gulf and the Red Sea.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

If nocturnes are the center of Ms. Tomes’s book, night music, broadly conceived, is the topic skirting the edges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Just over a three-hour drive south, skirting the Rhine until you hit the Swiss border, heading into an Alpine gateway towards the turquoise waters of Lake Thun, footballing folklore is being scribed.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

With the leak's Maryland location upriver from Washington, much of it found its way to the waters skirting the US capital.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

They ran along the bank, skirting it so closely that pebbles flew off their footsteps and bounced down into the water.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

They tapped the walls and sounded the skirtings, but without success.

From The Mystery of the Four Fingers by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

The tops of the skirtings, the mouldings of the doors, the sashes of the windows and the corners of the floors were thick with the accumulated dust of years.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

The country about this Fort is almost entirely prairie, producing along the banks of the river and streams only, slight skirtings of timber....

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell

Mouldings for panelling, cornices, skirtings, &c., are cut by revolving cutters or chisels, filed to any desired shape and case-hardened.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux

The partitions between the several walls were simply skirtings of planking covered with gold-leaf.

From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes