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Example sentences for "skip"

Lexicographically close words:
skinners; skinnes; skinning; skinny; skins; skipped; skipper; skippered; skippers; skipping
  1. I don't believe you would find out that they had no bodies, for my experience of a warren is, that when rabbits skip and run it is the tails chiefly that you do see.

  2. There they are,' the beetle continued; 'and when the band plays you will see how they skip and run.

  3. When they think you are not looking they skip along pretty lively, but if you look, and they fear there is no time to hide, they stand quite still pretending to be flowers.

  4. When they think you are not looking they skip along pretty lively (missing from book) 25.

  5. And now if you are reading this story to be in the company of the rich Mr. Barclay, to feel the madness of his millions, to enjoy the vain delirium of his power, skip the rest of this chapter.

  6. But once we get the herd started home, I don't believe he'd be able to do us any great harm, if he did skip out.

  7. So you can get your heads together and try to skip out, is that what you're after?

  8. Amos could skip out if he feels like it, because his pony has fleet heels, and might outrun the wolf pack?

  9. Was it just one man made us skip out like all that?

  10. There's just the smallest chance going that they'll skip him; and, if it happens, he can hang around and help us out later.

  11. He said he had ordered Pen's skip to pack up some trunks of the young gentleman's wardrobe, which duly arrived with fresh copies of all Pen's bills laid on the top.

  12. I am not about to describe this drive at length, in order that the reader may skip it; for I know the reader, being of like passion and fashion with him.

  13. I got out of bed, and when Esther came back and found me on my feet she gave a skip of pleasure.

  14. I promised to be at the wedding, and the young lady gave a skip of joy which made me think her prettier than ever.

  15. The Fish Scale or Lepisma saccharina, and the Skip Tail or Podura plumbea belong to the Thysanura.

  16. The Thysanura or "Skip Tail" tribe are small insects, which are better known on account of the beauty of their microscopic body scales than for any interesting habits or instincts.

  17. In this moonlight world you may skip at will from the known to the unknown, have publicity on one side of the way and secrecy on the other, walk in the light to see Jessica's face, and in the shadow to escape the prying eyes of Shylock.

  18. I can skip off and no one is any the wiser.

  19. The monkey, in the most sagacious way, would skip about till he had ascertained whether the weapon was there or not.

  20. I skip and run--and I look about to see if things are beginning to stick up out of the earth.

  21. You can't skip a hundred at first, but if you practice you'll mount up.

  22. At length she went to her own special walk and made up her mind to try if she could skip the whole length of it.

  23. Put on tha' things and run an' skip out o' doors," said Martha.

  24. She could run faster, and longer, and she could skip up to a hundred.

  25. I could skip longer than that," she said when she stopped.

  26. Do you think I could ever skip like that?

  27. Her skipping-rope had hung over her arm when she came in and after she had walked about for a while she thought she would skip round the whole garden, stopping when she wanted to look at things.

  28. It was a good long skip and she began slowly, but before she had gone half-way down the path she was so hot and breathless that she was obliged to stop.

  29. To confirm her words, Skip began to bark and carry on at a great rate.

  30. Grandfather Gordon tossed Skip into the sled where he snuggled down beside Rosemary.

  31. But her heart gave a skip and jump and tried to leap into her throat.

  32. Yes, Skip loves the snow,” the Brownie leader consented.

  33. Skip was a large, friendly shepherd dog, who barked when the Brownies called him by name.

  34. We found where he had left his uniform and where he kept in hiding until time to skip out and catch that train.

  35. The prowler had had time to skip from yard to yard, and nothing short of the services of the entire guard would be apt to result in his capture.

  36. My father and mother were honest, though poor--" "Skip all that!

  37. I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, "And proceed without further remark To the day when you took me aboard of your ship To help you in hunting the Snark.

  38. These silly knaves had banished all their cares; And when at ease they thought to skip and prance, Were seized and quickly taught another dance.

  39. I could skip to the block like a ballet-dancer if 'twere either that or live the past two days over again and fifty years after.

  40. Dis be de skipper dat heb de skip van marchandice; de commodity ben good; nempt it, master, nempt it.

  41. Then there are the turnip-fleas, little black beetles with a yellow stripe on each wing-case, which skip about just as fleas do, by means of their hind legs.

  42. Often these queer little creatures leave the sea altogether and skip about on the muddy shore, or even climb up the trunks of the trees which overhang the water.

  43. As for the scallops, they fairly skip and jump.

  44. The coolness of the house was so refreshing in the sultry heat of July; for, if one was too hot, all one had to do was to skip down where the great blocks of ice were piled, and soon get cooled off again.

  45. I believe we could skip from stone to stone," urged the gray mouse, who was determined not to turn back, if he could possibly help it.

  46. Is it polite to trip an' skip when you're following God?

  47. Every one knows that the more serious and urgent the errand a man may be upon, the more incongruous are apt to be the thoughts that skip into his mind.

  48. Now, listen, lamb, you and I are going to skip and skip at once.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; abscond; amble; antic; barge; beam; blank; bolt; bounce; bound; buck; bundle; caper; carom; chasm; chirp; clear; clog; clop; clump; cut; dance; decamp; delight; depart; desert; disport; drag; elope; escape; evade; exult; flee; flit; flounce; fly; foot; footstep; frisk; frolic; gambol; glance; glory; glow; graze; halt; hitch; hobble; hoof; hop; hurdle; jolt; joy; jump; laugh; leap; leave; lilt; limp; lumber; lunge; lurch; mince; negotiate; omission; omit; overlook; oversight; pace; paddle; pass; patter; peg; play; plod; pounce; powder; prance; procrastinate; quit; rack; ramp; rejoice; revel; ricochet; roll; romp; run; saunter; scamper; scoot; screw; scuffle; scuttle; shake; shamble; shirk; shuffle; sidle; sing; skedaddle; skim; skip; skirt; slack; slight; slink; slither; slouch; smile; sparkle; split; sport; spring; stagger; stalk; stamp; start; steeplechase; step; stomp; straddle; straggle; stride; stroll; strut; stump; swagger; swing; toddle; totter; tread; trifle; trip; trudge; vault; waddle; whistle; wiggle; wobble