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Example sentences for: skips

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The railway line from Porto skips the first 60 km (37 miles) of the river — but this is the least interesting stretch.
However, the usual constitutional protections enjoyed by suspects don't apply to skips pursued by bounty hunters because, the court decided, the bounty hunters work for the bondsmen, not the government.
D'Amato's latest strategy--to tar Schumer as a lazy, "part-time" congressman who skips votes--seems to be backfiring as well.
Law enforcement officers return 10 percent of skips, but catch most of them at routine traffic stops and at border crossings.
Most skips stay within the United States--avoiding passport-control agents, who are trained to spot them.