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Discover LudwigThe phrase "skidded over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has slid or moved quickly across a surface, often in a sudden or uncontrolled manner.
Example: "The car skidded over the icy road, narrowly avoiding the guardrail."
Alternatives: "slid across" or "glided over."
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Then, as the car skidded over the embankment, Tucker lost control and hit a palm tree.
He fell, crumpling onto the bay window roof, slithered crossways, scrabbling at the tiles, and skidded over the edge.
Instead of bending he watched it and left it for George Pisi who skidded over the line for the second try.
They were a moderately successful rally team, although in 1958 they were both injured when their car skidded over an embankment during an Alpine Rally.
But at last Sunday's Single Speed World Championship, the top rider skidded over a dusty, undefined finish line in the same revealing "Borat -style swimsuit he had worn during the entire grueling and technical ride.
He made no protest about the decision and there was a slight jump into the challenge, but there was perhaps an element of misfortune as his studs skidded over the ball and into the base of Digne's knee.
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She was a balloon, skidding over the ground.
For in his urge to break through stereotypes and enmity, he skids over the real social, economic and political concerns that animate fundamentalist groups.
"Let's have something Bavarian," he suddenly sings to Ethan, after which he skids over to some drums in the corner and pounds out a bongo counterpoint.
Order it with the just-made guacamole, and a cold one (preferably a Modelo Especial), and watch the kite surfers skidding over the waves in front.
According to the linguist David Crystal, the author of "Pronouncing Shakespeare" — a book about the Globe's 2004 Original Pronunciation staging of "Romeo and Juliet" — that speed was facilitated by the Elizabethan habit of skidding over consonants and dropping vowel sounds in the middle of words.
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