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Example sentences for "skimmers"

Lexicographically close words:
skills; skilly; skim; skimmed; skimmer; skimming; skimmings; skimp; skimpy; skims
  1. This, of course, is the same all the world over.

  2. In the May gazette the question will be decided.

  3. It is somewhat early to prophesy, but unless a remarkable change sets in, the future Esperantists will be as their predecessors.

  4. Skimmers nest in numbers on our Atlantic Coast from Virginia southward, laying their four eggs in a slight depression in the sand.

  5. Young Skimmers are pale, sandy brown, of the same color as the sand in which they are hatched.

  6. The gulls and skimmers were nesting on this island in great numbers, but the terns were many times more plentiful.

  7. Then we found them on an island on which Captain Sprinkle told us he had never before found them, although both skimmers and gulls had always nested on it.

  8. The terns had completely deserted the island and had gone in their thousands to another; but some skimmers remained and were nesting.

  9. The herons had well-grown nestlings, whereas the terns and gulls were in the midst of the breeding, and the skimmers had only just begun.

  10. Like the gulls, the skimmers moved about much more freely on the ground than did the terns.

  11. The skimmers are odd, interesting birds, and on the whole were, if anything, rather tamer even than the royal terns and laughing gulls, their constant associates.

  12. The laughing gulls and the black skimmers were often found with their nests intermingled, and they hovered over our heads with the same noisy protest against our presence.

  13. Skimmers nest in large communities, the same as do the Terns, laying their eggs in hollows in the sand.

  14. Young Skimmers are said to have both mandibles of the same length, the abnormal development not appearing until after flight.

  15. Under the impulse of the wind the flames spread quickly, and before next morning there were six skimmers of the sea the less on the waters of the Mediterranean.

  16. The same year which saw the capture of these skimmers of the sea saw also the beginning of a much greater naval war.

  17. The whirling swarms were hordes of cormorants, herons, terns and skimmers defying every known law of gravity in their mad evolutions.

  18. There were iguanas two yards long, and on the knolls where the wind had blown the sand into heaps fat young skimmers and terns were testing their wings for the new life that lay before them in the air.

  19. Flocks of gulls and skimmers flew shrieking and wheeling in masses overhead or ran excitedly over the sand.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skimmers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.