Example Sentences

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"It could make Pyongyang act less skittishly in crises," he said.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2023

Those of us who went to work in person, did so skittishly, with concern often and amidst risk.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2021

I sat tight, but the driver began skittishly speaking in Dari to a soldier outside his window.

From Slate • May 6, 2016

The film is then not so much a meditation but a reverie, a swirl of emotions and ideas, managing to be both calmly reflective and skittishly anxious at the same time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2014

The animal made a half parenthesis of himself, curving skittishly, and watching jealously, as he went by the frightsome pile.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)