Sentence examples for skirted from inspiring English sources

If rural settlements today are, in the main, Potemkin villages, perhaps they are skirted by Potemkin hunts.

Credit Suisse agreed to pay $2.6bn £1.7bnn) as part of the settlement, as Dougan blamed the scandal on a small number of Switzerland-based bankers who "skirted the bank's controls".

"Germany skirted recession by the narrowest of margins, with GDP rising 0.1% in the three months to September after a 0.1% decline in the second quarter (which was revised up from a 0.2%.contraction).

In Swift's time, European explorers had only skirted around the coastal edges of Africa and its interior remained, to all intents and purposes, a mystery.

There was some traffic as we skirted Chelmsford, but all was peaceful again when we stopped for dinner at the Jolly Sailor in Heybridge Basin near Maldon, overlooking the Blackwater estuary.

ON A recent evening in Cizre, an old Kurdish settlement skirted by the Tigris river in south-east Turkey, a family grieves.

This massive undertaking includes boring a pair of 30-mile tunnels to funnel water from the Sacramento River upstream of the delta to an existing pumping station downstream of the delta (previous plans, in the 1960s and 1980s, proposed canals that skirted the delta).

"Oscar de La Renta sleeveless silk, full-skirted dress with black patent-leather bow belt – now that is pure poetry," the character once said.

Yet, the paddock retains the feel of a men's club, even down to the short-skirted "grid girls", employed to hang around the start line prettying things up.

The costume, later the popular dress of the Jacobins, consisted of a short-skirted coat with rows of metal buttons, a tricoloured waistcoat, and red cap.

The women worked along with the men; for practical reasons they cut their hair short and wore trousers or short-skirted tunics.