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Usage examples of skip.

She decided to skip the etiquette and pay a personal visit to the ambulance drivers.

There were four cruiser analogs, a warship analog, a skip carrier, and twenty frigates.

At the head, with Barger, was the scruffy Praetorian Guard: Magoo, Tommy, Jimmy, Skip, Tiny, Zorro, Terry and Charger Charley the Child Molester.

I skipped inside and dialed Jas, my very bestest mate in the universe.

When the first time machine arrived in the Kingdom of Frank, in the Land of Dam, its temporal skip had been slightly greater than the one Brewster himself had experienced, so as a result, it had not materialized in the same place.

Skip King, the man who brought the last living Brontosaur back from Africa alive.

In response to customary summons to breakfast, Baal Burra skipped along the veranda.

The weary tendons propelling him caught and skipped like frayed cables, one excruciating step after another.

Lady Holsted, a plump and placid mother of four hopeful daughters who sat on her other side, Claire once again watched, this time with slightly envious eyes, as her sister skipped down the room.

Even so, one stone struck a mantlet straight on, reducing it to a cloud of splinters and blood, then skipped further to crush another soldier.

There was no practical way to prevent Molt snipers from firing into distant human arrays, then skipping back to safety.

The spectators had been flirting with disaster for days, skipping across the road in front of the peloton, and now a frenzied fan had leaped into the middle of the road with his Instamatic, and stood there taking pictures.

Wrolf and Periwinkle were too dignified to dance or skip but Wrolf wagged his tail and Periwinkle whinnied on a high note of delight.

A barefoot Pict can skip lightly where a booted and battle-ready soldier will sink.

Alien abductions, Bigfoot in the piney wood hills, faeries skipping through downtown streets, goblins in the sewers.