Sentence examples for lightly over from inspiring English sources

Brush lightly over the plums.

The film skips lightly over the sad episode that followed.

And a sense of cultural inquiry floats, lightly, over all.

"Isn't She Great" passes lightly over Susann's more egregious habits.

"Before Night Falls" skips lightly over Arenas's persecution and imprisonment.

Garbo-like, he lifted his massive gorilla arm and rested it lightly over his face.

We run our fingers lightly over the keys, making a gentle, pitter-patter sound.

He skates more lightly over why the rift in the Security Council became so bitter.

And in some ways Aboulela passes too lightly over the obstacles posed by this tension.

"Let's just pass lightly over the death of my mother, O.K.?" Mr. Hedges asks.

The centrifuge models involved a deep, lightly over-consolidated clay profile with three different soil-cement grid configurations.