Blown foam, whipped all across the Pacific, is cast up like weed along the sand and skims the wave-marks with a winged motion.
The gunwale is only just raised above the water, over which the little craft skims with a rapid bounding motion, affording an agreeable variation from the stately swanlike movement of the gondola.
Seated firmly at the back, and guiding with the feet in front, the rider skims down precipitous slopes and round perilous corners with a rapidity that beats a horse's pace.
Almost all writers on our butterflies, from Haworth downwards, have commented on the graceful flight of the White Admiral as it skims aloft and alow through the woodland glades.
The female, however, is not to be allured; she must be sought among the sallows, and when seen is not easy to net, as she skims away over the tops of the bushes and is difficult to follow.
If the dove skims along to the car and back without a hitch, they calculate on a splendid summer and autumn, on a rich yield of corn, and overflowing presses of grapes.
The harrier skims over field, copse and meadow, suddenly rounding corners and topping fences and surprising small birds, or mice, on which it drops before they have recovered from their surprise.
The swallow skims the river's watery face, The frogs renew the croaks of their loquacious race.
At least, if its imperfect wings cannot raise it above the earth, they assist it powerfully in walking, and endow it with extraordinary swiftness: it is the sail with which it skims its arid African ocean.
While migrating it flies very high, but when scared from its feeding-ground it skims along the surface of the water for some distance, and then rises high into the air, uttering its shrill whistle.
Then, altogether heedless of intrusion, it skims along the surface of the drains in the marshes, profiting by its length of wing and facility of wheeling, to capture flying insects.
Towards evening it comes forth from its stronghold, and skims the sea in quest of food, which consists of floating animal matter of all kinds.
While in pursuit of its winged prey, it does not confine itself to the water, but skims over the marsh and adjoining meadows, sometimes even alighting for an instant to pick up a worm.
Then it skims on with extended, motionless pinions, and once more anchors itself to the air.
The White Pasha skimsover the desert mile after mile.
The sea is high, and heskims just above the surface, rising to meet each wave and descending into every trough, and the tips of his wings seem to dip into the foam.
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Rapt by his Steeds he flies in open Day, Throws up the Reins, and skims the watry Way.
He skimsthe fields and hillsides as the swallow skims the air, and what he gets is intangible to most persons.
On such occasions it perches on a high tree, and when a bird is shot skims down and carries it off before the sportsman can get near it.
See how she skims along like a swan with her head up, and stern well under the wind!
It skims along like a witch," exclaimed a third; "it is surely alive!
In sailing along, therefore, the log just skims the tops of the waves, but scarcely ever buries itself in them, so that little or no interruption to the velocity of the canoe is caused by the out-rigger.
He mines the earth and skims the air, He plows the main, descends the deep, And through its silent chambers there, Electric forces flash and leap.
Genius skims off from the milk of human nature, and reserves for the cream of society.
He only skims over those feelings, because his first object was to represent a chastisement sent by the gods, and to produce an impression of terror that nothing could diminish.
The poet treats his subject in a common manner when in the execution of his theme he dwells on valueless facts and onlyskims rapidly over those that are important.
An airy courier straightway flies Upon his beast, and onward hies, And skims past poles and moon; As he went off, the clock struck four, At five his charger reached the door.
When hunting for its prey it skims over the ground and bushes, carefully inspecting each.
Cried Rua and turned and descended the turbulent stair of the stream, Leaping from rock to rock as the water-wagtail at home Flits through resonant valleys and skims by boulder and foam.
England reads Thucydides, and skims Demosthenes, though Greece, it is presumed, does not.
I'll back him who studies them against the man who skims his fellow-creatures, and vice versa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skims" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
