Example sentences for: skirted

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

  • Writing in USA Today, sometime Slate contributor Walter Shapiro laments that Bush's remarks were over-rehearsed and "totally skirted such contentious issues as public schools run on a for-profit basis and the merits of teaching to ace tests."

  • Today's front page: "WHAT HILLARY DIDN'T SAY/Author: She skirted issue of sex addiction in interview."

  • The LAT lead editorial says that with this story, Starr's office "appears once again to have skirted legal proprieties and invited further disrespect for its motives by clumsily trying to manipulate the political climate."

  • While the upbeat "Hitler Moves East" skirted any mention of the destruction of the European Jews, "Mein Kampf " (1993-94) explores, in lurid color--especially the Nazi colors of red and black--Hitler's crimes against humanity.

  • George Bush skirted congressional war powers in Panama and denied that they applied to the Iraq war.


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