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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
Style these with jeans, trousers, or sweatpants during fall and winter or wear them with shorts, skirts, and dresses on warmer days. Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025 There are multiple styles too, like those in which the handles swapped leather for shiny metals, adding a contemporary twist and masterfully pairing with the models’ midi skirts, playful outerwear clad in primary colors, and preppy tailoring. Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025 Some splice skirts and jeans into one garment. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025 Some skirts required nearly 20 yards of fabric, even as Europe was still recovering from material shortages. Maya Alzaben, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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
  • Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The expansion includes a new three-lane roadway that bypasses North Harbor Drive and delivers drivers to Terminals 1 and 2 as well as parking garages.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • This type of prompt injection bypasses human awareness and targets the AI's decision-making directly.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 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 addition to being surrounded by storefronts and housing, the site borders the Green Line light rail station and the A Line bus stops along Snelling, key transit connections that were once expected to inspire commerce.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In neighboring Germany, several drones were reported in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which borders Denmark, from Thursday into Friday night.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As long as Lagway avoids turnovers, the Gators will have a chance in the fourth quarter to steal a big SEC win.
    Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Supporting Jones with a stingy defense and a run-heavy offense that ensures balance and avoids placing too much pressure on the quarterback’s shoulders, Steichen has the Colts atop the AFC South standings with a 3-1 record.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Oh plays Eve, a deskbound MI-5 agent who longs to be a spy in the field, a dream that is soon realized when a mutual obsession develops between her and a sadistic, sociopathic assassin (Jodie Comer) who always evades capture.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 24 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 8 Oct. 2025.

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