SKIP in a Sentence

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For SKIP, below is one of 71 sentences:
It was plain that there was not a great deal of strength in Mistress Mary's arms and legs when she first began to skip.

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 Meanings and Examples of SKIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
skip
 v.  jump lightly; hop; bypass
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  "I could skip longer than that," she said when she stopped.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  You can't skip a hundred at first, but if you practice you'll mount up.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  It was plain that there was not a great deal of strength in Mistress Mary's arms and legs when she first began to skip.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  She wanted him to see her skip.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  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.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  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.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  She could run faster, and longer, and she could skip up to a hundred.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  Another time they tried to go at yellocution; but they didn't yellocute long till the audience got up and give them a solid good cussing, and made them skip out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
9  Colonel Mayhew did not dispute the producer's right to skip two hundred years in less than fifteen minutes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  Mr. Venn is so tall that he knocked his head against the beam in gieing a skip as he passed under.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
11  The word 'limes' was like fire to powder, his yellow face flushed, and he rapped on his desk with an energy which made Jenny skip to her seat with unusual rapidity.'
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
12  And it was as natural for him to talk well and cleverly, as it is natural for a child to skip about.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
13  The newspapers had got hold of that story, and there had been a scandal; but Scully had hired somebody to confess and take all the blame, and then skip the country.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  Next year I may take a little skip over here now that I've broken the ice.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
15  The interest and curiosity in Mistress Mary's face delighted her, and she went on skipping and counted as she skipped until she had reached a hundred.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  He used to skip lessons and hang around the harbor with some other boys.
2  Let's skip to the last item on the agenda.
3  I suggest we skip to the last item on the agenda.
4  A newspaper reader can select what he is interested in and skip what he thinks is boring or irrelevant.
5  On top of it all, it appears that Serbia and Montenegro's withdrawal will allow their old enemy, Croatia, to skip qualification and go straight to the final.
6  It appears that Serbia and Montenegro's withdrawal will allow their old enemy, Croatia, to skip qualification and go straight to the final.
7  Please skip the remarks that will trigger bitter debates again.
8  It was this: "Pretty thin -- as long a dream as that, without any mistakes in it!" What a hero Tom was become, now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.
9  The little girl ran off, hopping and skipping as she went.
10  The ball skipped off Bonds' glove and bounced toward the fence.
11  She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps.
12  He skipped past the defender's despairing lunge.
13  though muffed in a cloak--an unnecessary encumbrance, by-the-bye, on so warm a June evening -- I knew her instantly by her little foot, seen peeping from the skirt of her dress, as she skipped from the carriage-step.