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skim

If you skim something, you move quickly and lightly near the surface. If you skim something, you remove a substance from the surface of a liquid. You must skim off the foam from the surface of the soup for it to be clear.

skim

(= plane) travel on the surface of water (= skim over) move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of (= skip) cause to skip over a surface Skip a stone across the pond (= cream) remove from the surface skim cream from the surface of milk coat (a liquid) with a layer read superficially (= skimmed) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed yogurt made with skim milk she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter reading or glancing through quickly a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid there was a thin skim of oil on the water (= scan) examine hastily She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi

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  • What words refer to removing the thick part on top?

Conjugation skim conjugation

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skim · verb

Examples skim examples

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Simple sentences

I'll have skim milk.
Two-percent milk tastes better than skim.
Let the milk stand overnight and skim off the cream.

Movie subtitles

They've skim milk in their veins instead of blood.
Switch to sea skim. Pull ahead boats.
Maintain sea skim until we reach search area.
His fingers would skim the keys.
To skim a bundle off the contracts. U-Uh, l-I'll still deliver.
We have to skim the fat from the bouillon.
One container of skim milk.
Or those occasions when you do bust a pusher and skim the haul when you've made the collar. Sell it to your dope addict buddies on the force.
You drink skim milk, don't you?
You're required to manoeuvre straight down this trench. and skim the surface to this point.
There are 100 different ways to skim off the top.
This job pays almost nothing and demands our blood. Just to live it is necessary to skim a little here and there. And the jewellery is part of the skimming.
We better skim out of here.
Okay, everybody. Skim up the river!
Skim off the cream.
I've made designs for ships that will skim the waves like gulls, outrace anything afloat.
Maybe I'll be lucky and skim by.
Mel, get me some skim milk, will you?
Now, you boys want to be satisfied with the skim off the gambling and the girls and the numbers, go ahead!
That's how I remember him. Sitting at the piano. His fingers would skim the keys.
We've been subsisting right well, Zeb, these last couple of years on skim milk and wild onions.
I would be more inclined to consider myself more of. oh, skim milk of the Middle West or something.
I think the next time that you got an opportunity that, you know, maybe you could just kind of take a look in his book and kind of skim through it, huh?
Or those occasions when you do bust a pusher and skim the haul when you've made the collar.
Just to live it is necessary to skim a little here and there.
Well, we needed skim milk, he needed sour cream.
I was hoping you'd offer to skim some company money.
To skim the mirror of the smooth and solid streams!
You can only skim the suprmarket rags!
Give him nothing but skim milk and have him take the waters I prescribed.
One half-dozen eggs. One container of skim milk. Two of the, uh, low-cal cottage cheeses.
So what will happen when we skim round that thing?
To skim over the sand dunes of Mars is as yet, only a dream.
In that day, our machines and our descendants approaching the speed of light, will skim the light-years leaping ahead through time, seeking new worlds.
I need another double latte, no cream, skim milk, decaf.
Skim milk, two sugar.

News and current affairs

Most importantly, this arrangement allows the Chinese government to skim off a significant slice from the value of Chinese exports without interfering with the incentives that make people work so hard and make their labor so productive.

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