Example Sentences

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Next comes marching forward on the ice, then, before you know it, skaters are gliding, picking up speed each session.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2021

The International Skating Union’s new system, adopted in 2004, rewards difficult, higher-risk moves, especially in the latter part of the program when skaters are gliding across the ice on tired legs.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018

Ptychozwooms are gliding gekkotans that use large membranes and limb and tail flaps to cover distance in the treetops.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013

It will look as if the tanks are gliding across on top of the currents.

From Time Magazine Archive

My days are gliding swiftly by, And I, a pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as they fly, Those hours of toil and danger.

From Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days by Burton, Annie L.