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
It actually gave some weight to their sad air-clearing in the bedroom later, a scene I otherwise might have skimmed like an Avery Barkley Band song.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2013
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
Beginning life with mountebanks and thieves, passing onward to the society and friendship of philosophers, he may be said to have skimmed the volume of human life.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
