Sentence examples for started to skip from inspiring English sources

She stopped attending some classes at John F. Kennedy High School, and started to skip basketball practice.

In fact, in the end, I started to skip over them with my eyes and find the next, comprehensible section of the text.

But when the prime minister gulped and started to skip over chunks of his text in the face of the unexpected heckles and slow hand-claps from the unthreatening, decent folk of the Women's Institute, it was uncannily reminiscent of the moment in 1989 when the obedient masses of Bucharest startled Nicolae Ceausescu by their sudden decision to boo.

But about a month ago, when the Wall Street mergers-and-acquisitions deals she works on began to slow down, Ms. Simmonds, who lives in Murray Hill, started to skip some shopping sprees in favor of trips to Future Cleaners and Tailors on Third Avenue, where she paid $40 to repair the lining of a long winter coat and $15 each to fix the fallen hems on a skirt and pants.

Then there was the whole 98 Degrees element and bittersweet memories of blasting "The Hardest Thing" in the midst of emotional teenage breakdowns until the track started to skip on my scratched-up CD.

Those who were subsequently diagnosed with AN described how they started to skip meals, sell their school lunches, restrict calorie intake and eventually go for days without food.

The brush, just skimming the paper, starts to skip.

The game-viewing is so good here that we start to skip the drives.

It's been widely reported that many automakers are starting to skip big car shows.

Security staff will became bored and complacent and everybody involved will start to skip some of the checks to speed things up.

If you're starting to skip for the first time, bear in mind that it can take a lot of co-ordination and patience to synchronise your jump over the rope.