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Example sentences for: skimmed

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That is, she has skimmed the surface by reading a few reviews.
A British sailor gave her the name “Old Ironsides,” as cannon balls skimmed off her copper sheathed gunwales and he marveled at her apparent indestructibility.
“Here along Oil Creek, Indians skimmed the surface oil off the water for domestic uses, and white settlers bottled it for medicinal purposes and called it Seneca Oil.”
International Monetary Fund officials continue to deny that funds were skimmed off IMF accounts but admit that they've had accountability problems with Russia's central bank in the past.
John McCain, said he was reading The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories , but was either lying or had just skimmed the book while procrastinating, since elsewhere he has said that his autobiography is due in his publishers' offices by the end of the year.