skirting
IPA: skˈɝtɪŋ
noun
- Skirting boards collectively.
- skirts collectively; material for skirts
- The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
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Examples of "skirting" in Sentences
- They say that on the way to Trinkitat several of them were passed, and great care had to be taken in skirting alongside.
- This is kind of skirting, maybe the Turner Field area on southward where the greatest threat of this storm is right now.
- Whether or not that's true, this kind of skirting of the line on race makes GOP establishment figures very nervous these days.
- In fact, as we take a closer look at that area, you'll see the rain kind of skirting the region, skirting Lake County at this time.
- He fared on days and nights over the Second Sea, till he came to a great mountain skirting which ran a Wady without end, the stones whereof were magnetic iron and its beasts, lions and hares and panthers.
- On reaching the lane I have so often described as skirting the gardens of the old Hall, I noticed, through the palisades, a person, probably one of the gardeners, sauntering along Lady Robert's favourite yew-walk.
- Even if you're not old enough to remember The Jetsons cartoons or Doc Brown's flying DeLorean from the Back to the Future movies, the idea of skirting above the rooftops in your very own aerial sedan is still mighty appealing.
- Just as she said now she said she's willing to engage directly in Iran and primary voters are really looking for someone that isn't trying to cruise on their laurels and they want to know where she stands on the issues and she's kind of skirting some of those issues.
- I happened one day to pass along the lane I have described as skirting the garden of the manor-house, on my way homewards to my farm; and on plunging my eyes, as usual, into the verdant depths of the clipped yew-walks, visible through the iron-palisades, was struck by the contrast afforded to the scene I had just witnessed, not only by its aristocratic tranquillity, but by the grave and subdued deportment of
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