Cause to skip over a surface

Usage examples of skimming.

The rival aeroplane was now skimming above the water at a height of about a thousand feet.

As he spoke he raised his arbalest to his shoulder and was about to pull the trigger, when a large gray stork flapped heavily into view skimming over the brow of the hill, and then soaring up into the air to pass the valley.

These are fitted with attemperators, and parachutes for the removal of yeast, in much the same way as in the skimming system.

First Councillor had altered his exoskeletal posture, skimming over to them like a swimmer.

It was wintertime clear enough, for there were no larks rising on the hills or swooping plovers--only big flocks of skimming grey fieldfares, and strings of honking geese passing south, and solemn congregations of bustards, and in the wet places clouds of squattering wildfowl.

It was running out of juice, skimming low, ruby flimmer reflected in rain-stippled puddles.

From being alone in the Void until your mind screams for contactfrom skimming whole planets with your thoughts, hungering for the touch of a familiar soul.

I run the channel of Piombino in a mistral, shoot the Faro of Messina in a white squall, double Santa Maria di Leuca in a breathing Levanter, and come skimming up the Adriatic before a sirocco that is hot enough to cook my maccaroni, and which sets the whole sea boiling worse than the caldrons of Scylla.

She studied him as he took her and Miro and Plikt out by car, skimming over the endless prairies of capim.

Stephen, looking at the wicked proa tearing along in their wake, close-hauled to the south-west breeze, both its outriggers skimming white on the sea: wicked, in that it was certainly a pirate and much faster than the junk, but not very dangerous, in that it was small, containing no more than fifty men squeezed tight and possessing not a single gun.

Finally he opened a gateway for Skimming and made a platform, a railless disc, half white and half black.

Then his warm, naked fingers joined the exploration, finding her most sensitive spots, skimming over her flesh with the same seductiveness as his voice.

A group of pterosaurs had been working the ocean, skimming low over the surface seeking to scoop up fish in their hydrodynamically elegant beaks.

The boat was skimming the side of a canyon wasteland, an endless terrain of monochromatic rubble that looked less inviting than the surface of the moon.

The picture of that monoplane skimming down the sky, with the nameless terrors flying as swiftly beneath it and cutting it off always from the earth while they gradually closed in upon their victim, is one upon which a man who valued his sanity would prefer not to dwell.