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Example sentences for: gliding

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The strokes are isolated and tentative, gliding over the smooth paint surface like someone ice-skating the day after a cast comes off.
In spring and autumn, storks, buzzards, and other soaring birds fill the skies as they climb in the rising thermals before gliding across the strait on their annual migration, congregating here where the sea crossing is at its shortest.
The director, Garry Marshall (he did Pretty Woman , too), isn't especially talented at tying up loose ends or gliding over awkward inconsistencies.
By the time Portnoy's Complaint came out, in 1969, it was clear--and this was part of the joke of the ice-skating scene--that people like awkward Alex were going to wind up ahead of the gliding shiksas and their halfback brothers, because they were more book-smart.
And, to return to Mr. Delaney, swimmingly is associated with aquatic sports: “with a smooth gliding movement” says OED . No confusion there, I would suggest.