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."

  • 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."

  • In his recent public statements, he has skirted this issue entirely.

  • Throughout all those heavily skirted centuries, men paid good money to watch women's legs prancing, kicking, and leaping on the stage, since on the street, the shift of weight was about all that could be discerned.

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


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