Sentence examples for stone skimming from inspiring English sources
It's a fat book but very light on its feet, skipping from anecdote, to rant, to reflection, like a stone skimming across a pond.
Hostettler has grilled local geologists to find out where to get the correct stones for the stone skimming contestants and is planning a trip to eastern Switzerland next month to find "the best materials along the side of the Rhine".
If the "de-orbit burn" had been too short the astronauts could have skipped across the atmosphere like a stone skimming a lake and flown back out into space.
It may not have been an Olympic sport, but it still takes dedication and training to be a champion at stone skimming - the time-honoured pastime of throwing flat stones across still water so that they bounce along the surface.
Before the competition, BBC News met leading contender Paul Crabtree to get some of his top tips for stone skimming - then followed him as he contested the title.
It's like being a stone skimmed across water, and it's soggy, exhilarating fun.
In the afternoons we went for long walks along the beach with the wind in our faces and he showed me just the right thin black stones for skimming out into the waves, and yet, however hard I tried, I never managed to skim mine as far as his, even though he was sixty-seven years older than me.
Stone only skimmed that page.
Blurred footprints, a smooth flat stone good for skimming.
(Cunningham said he was thinking of skimming stones across a lake).
