How to Use skate over/around in a Sentence

skate over/around

phrasal verb

• There was a sacrifice behind every set of hands that held that chalice on that skate around the Joe Louis ice.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2022
• Dean was guiding her mother, who leaned on a stroller, readjusting it when needed to skate over the cracks.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2021
• Water striders skate over the surface of water, using their legs to sense waves from their prey.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2010
• Various aquatic insects can use the water's surface tension to skate around along the top lakes and ponds.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2021
• The show certainly has fun stuff — watching the funny Kelvin Rolston Jr., wobble and skate around is a great time — but in Act 1, that crucial sense of truth is mostly elusive.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022
• The player doesn't so much inhabit the land as skate over it, a disconnect intensified by janky leaps off of hills when riding a Pokémon mount.
  — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 2 Feb. 2022
• While Ovenbird itself has managed to skate around the worst of the pandemic's effects on the food industry, retail operations are only part of its business.
  — Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2021
• Plazas in front of Manhattan banks—equipped with concrete benches, abstract sculptures and other obstacles to skate around or over—became his habitat, the natural meeting place and school for skaters.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
• Marketing claims also sometimes skate over the nuances in the guidance from the leading professional societies.
  — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 6 Dec. 2022
• Critics are allowed to not only skate over the complexity of leaving a country the U.S. has occupied for two decades, but in many cases to ignore the myriad failures of the occupation itself.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2021
• Its members come from all walks of life — plenty of blue-collar careers, city and state employees, coaches, doctor, fisherman, dentist, lawyer, pilot, judge, teacher, and one guy who allegedly wore a skate over his ankle bracelet for a while.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2020
• For a chance to become a policyholder, fans can skate over to navwinsurance.com beginning today to enter, and new policyholders will be selected every Tuesday through May 16.
  — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2024