Emulate Michelle Kwan

Usage examples of skate.

The fact that Dingbat and Skate knew nothing about the fire until Enwald told them, merely indicated greater depth to the plot.

Perhaps it was his lack of company like Dingbat and Skate that gave Enwald gloss on this occasion.

Skate and Dingbat heard the noise and wheeled about, tugging guns from their hips.

CHAPTER XI - DEATH BELOW LOCKED with two thugs like Skate and Dingbat, The Shadow held advantages that his antagonists did not suspect.

Past the glaring faces of Skate and Dingbat, The Shadow saw Enwald lunging forward with the bottle.

Christmas party, which was going to be dull with an exceeding great dullness, no matter how the Braithwaites might tear their hair to make it interesting, Dinny went skating in the park.

She said it hardly seemed fair that big fibbers could get so rich by skating the thin ice just within the law.

Marcella and Victor called out the names of every fish in sight, about fifty in all: iridescent sardines and anchovies flashing silver and turquoise, flying fish with pointed beaks and snails creeping nowhere in their glossy spotted shells, tiny gray shrimp jumping like crickets and huge blue shrimp too stately to move, clams with shells bearing Navajo designs and scallops as small as aspirins, delicate flatfish for grilling or frying and bony striped fish for soup or risotto, diamond-shaped turbot and broad fans of skate, ink-stained cuttlefish, octopus, squid.

So saying, he bowed deeply to Danlo and then ambled down to the gliddery and snapped in his skate blades.

Then they skated up the old gliddery that leads from the Academy straight to the great circle outside the Hofgarten.

For days, I could not skate down the most out-of-the-way gliddery without some novice tugging on the sleeve of a schoolmate and pointing at me in awe.

Leggy girls in skimpy tops and satin shorts that covered a tenth of their gluteal regions skated by, transforming the walkways between the palms into fleshy freeways.

Next morning with a whoosh they are off east again, and in a few hours sailing are out on the ice with no land visible, skating on the gusty wind with runners clattering or shussing or whining or blasting, depending on wind and ice consistencies.

Before he could give them hockey lessons, they needed skating lessons.

Wednesday at hockey practice he let Kira dole out hot chocolate without asking her to put on skates, which left her free to sing Zane to sleep, which left Travis free to skate like a pro.