Example sentences for: skim

How can you use “skim” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hope, of course, is that voters will skim the ad and buy its message.

  • He's stopped banks from taking advantage of the system to skim a few hundred dollars off the top of each new student loan.

  • As I skim Flowers in the Dustbin for fresh anecdotes (which we agree may be the book's real pleasure), I realize how many of Miller's vignettes seem chosen with an eye to '90s academic interests--gender, thanatos, whiteness studies.

  • Membranes were blocked with Buffer A (Tris-buffered saline (TBS) (Bio-Rad) containing 5.0% skim milk and 0.5% Tween 20 (Sigma)) for 1 h with gentle shaking, then washed with Buffer B (TBS containing 0.1% Tween 20) 3 times for 5 min each.

  • It takes no more than a preliminary skim to suspect what is soon substantiated in the ample sources and usages that accompany most entries—that it is within the military services of the United States and Great Britain, from the times of the World Wars, that the F-words have their truest homes.


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