gliding
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“It looks very shortsighted to me,” said Mark Green as he fed scraps of stale bread to a group of swans gliding along Christchurch’s waterfront.
“The third man,” began my mystical aunt, her hands gliding over the globe on her table, “he is your Future.”
From Literature
Liverpool were struggling to break through the visitors but, in those tight spaces, Wirtz was gliding past Wolves players like they were not there.
From BBC
In the end, he didn’t regret paying; gliding across the lake was worth it.
Breaking things up, gliding through the midfield with those big powerful legs.
From BBC
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