skate
noun
have skated
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present perfectof skate.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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Sitting with his coaches while waiting for his score Friday, a frustrated Malinin said if he had been sent to Beijing, he “wouldn’t have skated like that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Oshie said after the morning skate the ice was “phenomenal” and was potentially the best they have skated on this season.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
You could be not even a skateboarder and you know about Hollywood or know that people have skated there or know — in some type of way, shape or form — what that spot is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
But of the more than 7,600 players, some 5,100 from Canada, to have skated in the N.H.L. in the 100 years of its history, only about 80 have been of Indigenous heritage.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2018
Rosamond was there, of course, with both her brothers, whom she averred, by a bold figure of speech, to have skated in Canada before they could walk.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
