skirting

Example Sentences

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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

The fleet is made up of ageing tankers that carry Russia's oil and gas around the world, skirting Western restrictions.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

China this summer sent a cargo ship to the Polish port of Gdansk by skirting the North Pole, a route twice as fast as travel times using the Suez Canal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

A way of laundering legitimacy and skirting costly courtroom battles for pennies on the dollar.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2025

At last, after skirting carefully round some openings from which there was a distinct smell of rats, they halted in a kind of pit.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams