Sentence examples for are skirted from inspiring English sources
verb
To be on or form the border of.
- The plain was skirted by rows of trees.
If rural settlements today are, in the main, Potemkin villages, perhaps they are skirted by Potemkin hunts.
As so often with long-awaited party pronouncements, much of the "breakthrough" is already common practice and the toughest issues are skirted.
Their poses are serene and balletic, but the margins of the images are skirted by a sense of gloom, as the sea around the men fades to black.
Julian Hall of The Independent criticized it for a lack of inside stories about The Simpsons, writing that "Cartwright never allows you to become bored but that means some issues are skirted over faster than American closing credits on television.
On the other, they are skirted with fine mesh nets that taper over several feet into a pair of narrow steel collection cylinders, each about the size of a loaf of bread.
Many floats are skirted with either plywood with fringe stapled on the bottom edge; extra long fringe or table skirting; or poultry netting, a.k.a Chicken Wire with 1" holes wrapped around the base of the trailer hanging down close to the ground.
Antisocial renegades are skirting legal frontiers to exploit your private information.
Disney officials are skirting the term as if it were radioactive.
Cryptocurrency mining is also a new business model utilities are skirting around cautiously.
As it stands now, they are skirting conflict for conformity.
New rules can easily be skirted or neutered.
