Sentence examples for skimmed from inspiring English sources

For his New York solo debut, he has skimmed off pictures from early years of that history when he was a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines.

Paul Valéry, who eulogised Marcel Proust despite brazenly admitting he had only skimmed the writer's work, claimed this critical distance better enabled him to comment on it.

Mr Bayard, who is a professor of French literature at the University of Paris (his book was a bestseller in France earlier this year), says airily that he must often talk about books he has at best skimmed, at worst not even opened sometimes even with the books' authors.

Roughly 17% of the government total was recovered at the site; smaller shares were burned or skimmed off at the surface.

More than 2,000 miles out, a flock of small white terns skimmed past the Hokule'a heading for the still invisible Mataiva Atoll, next to Tahiti.

And when these fail to provide decent services, it is often not money that is lacking but political will, competence, co-ordination and continuity.In Sao Paulo, for example, much of the city hall's income in recent years has been skimmed off by corruption.

This dynamic one-day course provides you with a toolkit of different speed reading techniques to suit different purposes, whether you need to skim an article for a quick overview, or understand all the key points of a heavyweight report.

There's not a house or a person in sight: just heron, egrets and geese skimming the still waters.

Reporters are constantly skimming the surface to give us macro-level views, and while this broad-based approach has its advantages, it leads to misunderstanding serious issues, from white supremacy and domestic terrorism to Boko Haram and Isis.

Small steps A family affair Skimming In praise of holy fudge Reprints Related items A nation apartNov 6th 2003 America's deficits: A flood of red inkNov 6th 2003 Politics and Iraq: The home frontNov 6th 2003 Anti-Americanism: Hail on the chiefNov 6th 2003One answer to this final question is that incoherence is one of the luxuries of impotence.

Skimming daringly close to the water, an AgustaWestland helicopter roared over the lagoon at 150mph with a whooping, wetsuited figure clinging on to a trailing tow-rope.