Examples of skated

• When the lake freezes over , we can go skating on it.

• She skated over to where I was standing.

• Perhaps the difficulty of achieving a genuinely pragmatic account of reference explains why this area is often skated over in pragmatics textbooks.

• Inevitably this breadth means that much of the coverage is fairly general; and details of policy developments are largely skated over.

• Unfortunately, the advent of the computer in the form of solid-state technologies and later digital technologies is skated over.

• The still centre of the piece was 'snowfall on ashes', as caressing, feathery string tremolo harmonics traced a patina of frost on which the soloist skated nervously.

• Human rights are not something to be skated over and neglected.

• Indeed, she skated on thin ice this afternoon when she said that she was not wearing a pager.