skim over

Verb

Meaning

read superficially

move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of

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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Backwaters are starting to skim over with ice. Source: Internet

The books provide additional details that the anime is forced to skip or skim over due to lack of time (for example, the deaths of the all-female adventurer party). Source: Internet

Culottes highlight your waist and skim over your hips and thighs. Source: Internet

Visually, dark colors give a slimming effect and aren’t distracting; the eye tends to skim over dark colors. Source: Internet

This happened to us a few months ago - videos showing up for unrelated searches, and it made our organic traffic fall (this is, in most cases, something you don't want - looks like users just skim over videos if they're not the expected query result). Source: Internet

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