Example sentences for: skipped

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

  • The t element of the tsh combination represented by ch in Spanish, as in English, is not so commonly skipped as the first l of the double l combination, but it is often dropped, at least in northern Mexico; so what the Gringo cowboys heard was shaparreras, which they trimmed down to what was spelled chaps but pronounced shaps .

  • The program thought it could do this by a) making us watch Pepsi-sponsored movies featuring anti-drug propaganda and shrewd product placement; b) reinforcing the most obnoxious cliques on campus by choosing all the "All Star" officers from a popular group of athletes and cheerleaders (on average, B and C students who drank, smoked, and skipped class); c) doing everything possible to conceal the fact that high school's purpose is education; and d) giving us the opportunity to buy as much "All Star" merchandise as our parents could afford.

  • In September, NASA lost its Climate Orbiter, which either crashed or skipped off into space after a failure to convert navigational instructions from English to metric units sent the Orbiter fatally close to the Red Planet.

  • But not B. Somehow, he was skipped over.

  • King had skipped the march, fearful of the violence.


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