Immediately afterwards the battleplane almost skimmed a lofty pinnacle that resolved itself into another snow-outlined spire.
All I know is that we just skimmed the tops of a tall building.
Robinette and Mark were the two derelicts, and their rescuer skimmed towards them with all his strength.
He had skimmed it hurriedly through, but parts of it were already only too plain.
You skimmed along that last stretch of road like a bird.
The powerful motor responded nobly, and the machine skimmed over the sun-baked road at a terrific pace.
As we skimmed the depths of the Grand Banks, I could see perfectly those long fishing lines, each armed with 200 hooks, that every boat dangled by the dozens.
Then our conversation skimmed various subjects, and without being more forthcoming, Captain Nemo proved more affable.
So I called Conseil to my side, while at an average depth of eight to nine meters, the Nautilus slowly skimmed every beautiful rock on the easterly coast.
The Nautilus didn't stay idle, and cruising along the coast, it advanced some ten miles farther south amid the half light left by the sun as it skimmed the edge of the horizon.
Soon I threw myself down on a couch and picked up a book, which my eyes skimmed mechanically.
Only a few weeks earlier we had skimmed over the rolling surface in motor cars, crossing in one day then as many miles of plains as our own carts could do in ten.
As the first reports crashed out, the antelope, which had seemed to be flying before, flattened out and literallyskimmed over the plain.
Flock after flock of geese rose into the air, and long lines of ducks skimmed close to the surface, settling away from shore or on the mud flats near the water's edge.
The ground was as smooth and hard as an asphalt pavement and we skimmed along at forty miles an hour.
With a large bundle of letters in his hand he skimmed them over and finally paused, started on, returned, and tossed out a letter.
Across the blue sky above seagulls skimmedand darted and circled; so clear the waters beneath that the clean bottom showed like a floor of burnished gold.
The wheels skimmed sides of electric cars and brushed the noses of passing teams.
The officer ordered them to stop, but they skimmed on up the hill and turning to the left found Beacon Street a straight path before them.
They skimmed along the park roads and into the smooth roads of Brookline.
One of his sable hounds plunged into it, and the owl skimmed over its surface.
Wild fowl skimmedover its glassy surface, or dipped in search of its finny prey, and here and there a heron might be detected standing in some shallow nook, and feasting on the smaller fry.
AT THE LAZY D RANCH Helen Messiter was a young woman very much alive, which implies that she was given to emotions; and as her machine skimmed over the ground to the Lazy D she had them to spare.
The car skimmed forward over the uneven ground toward the end of the semicircle, and passed within fifty yards of the second man from the end, the one she had picked out as the leader of the party.
The realism common to all mankind is far elder and lies infinitely deeper than this hypothetical explanation of the origin of our perceptions, an explanation skimmed from the mere surface of mechanical philosophy.
Elizabeth skimmedand strained and put the shelves in order.
The next morning John continued to be aloof of manner and went to his work without attempting to empty the skimmed milk as usual, or to strain the new milk which stood at the top of the long cellar stairs.
I could have told you before that he and Hilda would join hands and glide through life together, just as years ago they skimmed side by side over the frozen sunlit river.
The ice upon the canal was perfect, but his wooden runners, so soon to be cast aside, squeaked a dismal farewell as he scraped and skimmed along.
For fawn or yellow-coloured leather, take a quart of skimmed milk, pour into it 1 oz.
Let the syrup be well skimmed both the first and second day of boiling, otherwise it will not be clear.
Skimmed Milk cheese is made for sea voyages principally.
When well skimmed and boiled for 1-1/2 hour, take out the head, and skim and strain the soup.
It is the most celebrated of all cheese: it is made entirely of skimmed cow's milk.
The pan should be placed in the dairy when the cream is sufficiently scalded, and skimmed the following day.
When sufficiently, that is, quite cool, the cream is skimmed off with the slice: it is now the clouted cream for which Devonshire is so famous.
Pigs are usually weaned between six and eight weeks after birth, after which they are fed on soft food, such as mashed potatoes in skimmed or butter-milk.
Single Gloucester is made of skimmed milk, or of the milk deprived of half the cream; Double Gloucester is a cheese that pleases almost every palate: it is made of the whole milk and cream.
The relative proportion of nitrogen to energy is not so great as in some other food products, such as eggs, or skimmed milk.
He put the cans to catch the cream and the skimmed milk when his father turned the separator.
In another few minutes the calves were drinking the warm skimmed milk.
In a few minutes the yellow cream came pouring out of one spout and the blue skimmed milk out of another.
Accordingly the inventor, utilizing the auto control device, cut down the speed till, instead of ploughing through the waves, the Peacemaker skimmed over them.
He skimmed through the records, reading the most interesting bits of information out aloud for the benefit of his youthful companions.
Ned was at the wheel and he turned on plenty of gasolene so that the car fairly skimmed over the roads.
It was a bright moonlight night, rather warm for the close of September, and the road was a fairly good one, so the boys skimmed along, their thoughts on the western trip they were soon to make.
We skimmed rapidly along the edge of the western reef, and when we had run about four miles to the southward, found a good wide break, which looked as though it led out to sea.
The consequence was that weskimmed along like a feather, whilst the Emerald had to displace many tons of water with every foot of progress which she made.
No one came on board; but the minister with that catish name got into the boat, and then some of the committee, which skimmed itself again, and thickened up its cream considerably.
The cream of that fifteen thousand skimmed itself off and consolidated in a handsome square building that they call the Club House.
If the blood pressure is dangerously high, he should receive but little nourishment, best in the form of cereals and skimmed milk.
It may be even advisable for twenty-four hours or so to give nothing but water, and then perhaps a skimmed milk diet for a few days.
Various modifications of this treatment have been suggested, such as skimmed milk, and more in quantity, or a cereal is added more or less from the beginning, and perhaps cream.
It is not good economy to buy skimmed milk, as some persons do, for making bread.
Oysters should be skimmed out of the liquor before being cooked, in order that it may be strained, as there are often bits of shell in it.
Calf's head, and veal need more skimming than any other meat; but all kinds need to beskimmed several times.
When the supply of milk is small, boil rice in skimmed milk, or milk and water.
The white froth that rises upon the top should never be skimmed off, as it is the most nutritious part of the gruel.
Boil them twenty minutes, and pour off the water entirely; then put in equal parts of hot water and milk, or skimmed milk alone, and boil them twenty minutes more.
She neither shuffled nor ambled, but skimmed over the smooth turf as if she moved by volition and her feet had had nothing to do with the motion.
Talking thus, the old gentleman had arisen from his chair and had re-entered the roadway, but the little old lady skimmed past him and faced him at the foot of the ladder.
Sometimes this is simply done as the need and occasion arise, and it is skimmed out in the acid or water extractions, but it is now more usual to have a special "degreasing" process.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skimmed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
