Example Sentences

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Maybe it was skinning data off the map as a head fake, a way of lowering expectations Apple will then exceed.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2012

Although his grades in school were poorer than poor�"I was skinning by on my belly," he says�his talent got him into Manhattan's famous High School of Performing Arts.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was skinning a hide and I dare not just put my work down.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

Three men-at-arms had escorted him into a wood near Horn Hill, where his father was skinning a deer.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Jean was skinning the peach and was smiling as at an amusing thought.

From The Angel of Terror by Wallace, Edgar