skim
verb (used with object)
to take up or remove (floating matter) from the surface of a liquid, as with a spoon or ladle.
has skimmed
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present perfectof skim (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The electron does not decide which way it is spinning—and therefore which of the two beams its atom travels in—even after it has skimmed through the magnet.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2022
On and on it goes – Kazakhstan is the size of western Europe, and so unremittingly flat, it’s as if some gigantic plasterer has skimmed the land.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2015
Anyone who has skimmed Guy Debord’s Wikipedia page or watched the American Music Awards could condemn our culture as a masquerade, a spectacle of virtuality.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014
Toomey has skimmed the first three years of his results.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2014
The farmer who has skimmed his farm might perchance leave his body to Nature to be ploughed in, and in some measure restore its fertility.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
