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plural of skirt

skirts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of skirt
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of skirts
Noun
Dressed up with sleek pencil skirts or down with relaxed jeans, the versatile layer has been spotted on A-listers like Kate Middleton, Oprah Winfrey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Keri Russell, and more. Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025 Thompson and her students donned flowing white skirts that swayed with every step, symbolizing the motions of nature. Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025 Hoop skirts and parasols, mint juleps and columned mansions. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025 Idealsanxun Wool Plaid Mini Skirt Plaid skirts are prep-school core, but this one feels grown-up, with its structured cut and warm wool blend. Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025 Women moved in colorful skirts, their steps steady and powerful, as resort guests gathered to sing and clap in time. Essence, 18 Oct. 2025 Wear it over T-shirts, flannels, dresses, long-sleeves, skirts, sweaters, and more. Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025 Elie Saab showed silk trousers and skirts printed to look like washed denim and Stella McCartney played with various washes and seams to create striped constructions. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 17 Oct. 2025 Comfortable and elegant, they can be easily styled with romantic dresses, skirts that defy proportions, and vintage-style jeans. Alex Sales, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
The holy river Ganges skirts the district’s southern border. Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025 The land that skirts the gulf is a vast time machine. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025 Target the Tri-Lakes Loop, an 11-mile romp through the heart of Mount Desert that skirts the edges of Eagle Lake, Bubble Lake, and Jordan Lake. Graham Averill, Outside, 26 Sep. 2025 The DeCaLiBron Loop currently skirts the summit of Bross due to landholder concerns that have kept it closed for years. John Meyer, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025 Even with registration, the Avata 2's first-person flight experience skirts FAA regulations, which require both recreational and professional pilots to keep a drone within sight during flights outside. PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skirts
Noun
  • The final dish is super soft and gooey towards the center (that is its name, after all), but the edges get beautifully crisped and well-browned.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The petrified waterfalls have turquoise pools perched on cliff edges.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trump’s approach, however, bypasses local consent, prompting lawsuits from Illinois and Oregon officials who argue the move is unconstitutional and escalates tensions unnecessarily.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This bypasses the current path of diagnosis, where symptoms are evaluated and a host of blood tests are performed to rule out other conditions such as thyroid problems or anemia.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This gambit circumvents the notorious way that measurements destroy quantumness.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But the Free Speech Coalition said companies might still be liable if a user in a state requiring age verification circumvents geographic targeting with a VPN.
    Jasmine Mithani, Them., 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The bridge adjoins the War Eagle Mill and carries traffic across War Eagle Creek.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Ritrovata, the laboratory that adjoins the Cineteca.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In Sumy, which borders Chernihiv, power is yet to be fully restored in the town of Shostka and surrounding area after strikes two weeks ago.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The 14-bedroom mansion, built in 1990, borders the Los Angeles Country Club and is surrounded by greenery.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And in recent years, Major League Baseball has been pushing the World Series later into the year as playoffs expand and the league avoids Sunday games so as not to overlap with the NFL.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The agent logs only essential identifiers, avoids storing raw sensor data, caps how much and how often information is recorded, and disables third-party analytics by default.
    Keivan Navaie, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Like the Chinese government and most of its people, the movie evades mentions of the mass casualties after the pandemic restrictions were removed, therefore foregoing an opportunity to reflect on whether the deaths were preventable and what lessons might be learned.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
  • For now, love evades understanding—which means that finding someone will remain, much of the time, a pain in the ass.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Hawley flanks the familiar creature from the movies with a variety of new monsters that get unleashed in the Maginot crash.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Skirts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirts. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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