There remained only a tiny, dancing globule of silvery mercury skittering around on the sharp, needle-like crystals of the dull red metal that had resulted.
Slowly that skittering drop was shrinking-- Three twenty-two and a half A.
Back to town he pulled with long vigorous strokes, skittering his feathered spoon-oars lightly over the tops of the wavelets.
Then the two girls could see plainly the fan-like cat's-paws skittering here and there as though panic-stricken by the swooping, invisible monster that pursued them.
How can he go skittering about all over the world in this way?
Skittering is a favorite method of fishing for the pickerel in weedy ponds.
It was a shame that Devore kept him skittering round on little picayunish jobs--running errands, that was really what it was.
Then, too, the skittering may be that of some entirely different creature.
With a swish he is gone, and unless I hear the skittering of tiny feet a rod away I may not tell in what direction or how.
It was a tatterdemalion array that he had conjured into conclave with his skittering whoop along the hill-tops.
There was confusion of formsskittering about from hut to hut.
His arm stretched to point a tiny black beetle away off to the westward: a beetle skittering down the long slope of a divide and in their direction.
Latent impressions," answered Shearing briefly, and sent the skiff skittering in between two great black monoliths, to settle with a jar on a pan of rock as smooth and naked as a ballroom floor.
The tiny life-raft dropped toward it, skittering nervously as it hit the thin atmosphere.
With the three of them wedged into the seat of the Gomez, and Pinky recklessly skittering after them in the bug, they climbed again--and lo!
Once, skittering along by dark, he realized that the halted car which he had just passed was the Gomez.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skittering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
