skim
verb (used with object)
to take up or remove (floating matter) from the surface of a liquid, as with a spoon or ladle.
have skimmed
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present perfectof skim.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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“In the past, film musicals have skimmed over things; each problem gets a song,” says “Pink Ladies” executive producer and producing director Alethea Jones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
Viewers and reviewers seem to have skimmed past that scene as well.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2018
And you have skimmed this far through this essay to find out what the big gross-out scenes are.
From Time ● Jun. 5, 2012
Mr. Payne might also have skimmed Lord Byron’s long poem about Don Juan: that famed lothario is mentioned twice in the novel, and some of his adventures, at times in drag, are also echoed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2010
But the Europeans have mixed too freely, they have skimmed, they have flirted, they have been so ashamed of true emotion that they have made the Song of Solomon into a vaudeville ditty.
From The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George
