How to Use skirting in a Sentence

skirting

noun

• For most of the drive, FR 300 plays peek-a-boo with the edge of the rim, skirting timber and meadows.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 19 May 2021
• The flames had melted the skirting of her parents' home and warped a vinyl fence.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
• The clients built the wooden tables in the dining room themselves, and Ralph added custom skirting.
  — Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 18 Oct. 2022
• The strapless gown with low wide skirting gives off a mermaid-esque feel.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• With a flowy skirting and an embroidered bodice with lots of shimmer, to the silk sleeves, all is captivating.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 4 July 2022
• Dig those art deco-like scrolls over the wheel arches, fitted with heavy plastic skirting.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 20 June 2019
• When Drummond ripped off that wooden skirting and made the initial discovery, the pair couldn't help but wonder if there was more to find in the mudroom.
  — Georgie Silvarole, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2020
• The original staircase, which had to be torn down, was reused to create a feature wall, while the skirting boards were repurposed as bar fronts.
  — Vivian Song, Robb Report, 17 July 2022
• There is an aesthetic ethics to the skirting of clichés about religious life, one that the show itself subtly comments on.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• The situation was awkward to say the least, but it was made even more so by the skirting-on-flirting conversation the pair had at the bar as their fiances looked on.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Skriver wore a black gown with white on the bodice, ruched skirting and a flamboyantly voluminous train.
  — Allyson Portee, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2022
• Medium Friday finds a low pressure skirting offshore to our south and east with the potential to keep our area cloudy with scattered showers.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2021
• Parmar finds creative ways, often flouting norms or skirting rules, to fit his patients' needs.
  — Markian Hawryluk, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
• The only difference with the Utes is that there’s no skirting off over other borders on attack, no getting around them, at least not on most occasions.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Three crew members went out in a rigid-hull inflatable boat (RIB), scanning the black water under an ivory moon, skirting icebergs, listening for the beat of the Acousondes.
  — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• Choose the lightest or brightest hue for the major wall surfaces, a darker color for the window and door frames, and a third, medium tone for window sashes and skirting boards (the board under the windowsill).
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2022
• One gown just swam in a sea of mustard yellow, while another, a 50s style dress with an ankle-length hem had lush skirting with tulle covering, and Valli made mermaid style gowns with tulle.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• The store is housed in a colonial-style edifice in Osu, Accra with baroque skirting, antique furniture and walls that evoke the nostalgia of 16th-century frescos.
  — Ken Kweku Nimo, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2022
• And the story still seemed fictional, at least until October when Drummond ripped off the rotting, wooden skirting on the home's mudroom and something tumbled out at his feet.
  — Georgie Silvarole, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2020
• During a second study hall, Ken Evans Jr., 20, a guard, grabbed his iPad and folded his 6-foot-5 inch frame beneath the skirting of a table of water pitchers, seeking privacy to work on a management project.
  — New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• In general, homeowners are required by their leases to keep up their home exteriors and yards, including the skirting along the bottom of the home designed to keep rodents from nesting underneath.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
• Rather than a civic celebration of one of the town’s greatest cultural contributions, as the 2016 plan envisioned, the council opted instead for a civic celebration of the misdemeanor crime of up-skirting.
  — Christopher Knight Art Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2021
• In reality, Beavan designed and Fletcher built the 40-foot train as three separate sections, hooking onto net-skirting and an exquisite corset, accented with pleated newsprint-paper silk.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
• Victorian details include lofty ceilings, original skirting boards, cornices and ceiling rosettes.
  — Alison Gregor, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
• This sequence of political volatility, followed by Trump's skirting of accountability, has meant that Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign has gone largely unpunished.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 23 June 2017

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024