skirting

Example Sentences

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Skirting the stems of the dogwood with the dwarf nandina provides contrasting form while fanning the flames of the color study.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022

Skirting the southern edge of the city, the wildfire tore through 190 acres of still-dormant grass on the snow-speckled foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2022

Skirting the pitfalls of revisionist history, it is fiction neither as plodding realism nor as implausible feminist anachronism, but rather something in between and beyond: a rigorous, living vision of what could have been.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2021

AI: Skirting around it can be quite useful – it might just spark an idea that might work with a certain character or at a certain moment.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2015

Skirting or briefly inhabiting the bottom of the scoreboard does not make one a failure, but remaining there, refusing to fight, does.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady