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How to use skip in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Skip means to move by hopping on alternate feet. Example: “She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.”

Examples of skip by meaning

verbTo move by hopping on alternate feet.

  • She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

verbTo skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

  • The rock will skip across the pond.

verbTo throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

  • I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

verbTo disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

  • My heart will skip a beat.
  • He skipped the second question and moved on.
  • I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.

verbNot to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

  • Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

verbTo leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

  • to skip the country
  • a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill

verbTo leap lightly over.

  • to skip the rope

verbTo jump rope.

  • The girls were skipping in the playground.

More sentences with skip

  • The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.From the entry jump
  • The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.From the entry local
  • It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.From the entry everything
  • I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.From the entry filter
  • All but three of the students skipped school the day of the parade.From the entry all but
  • Most people I know skipped half of their three L classes.From the entry three L
  • He has a class on Thursday afternoons, but he skipped out this week.From the entry skip out
  • It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from the library.From the entry hop, skip, and a jump
  • A well-timed double jump will let you skip this obstacle entirely.From the entry double jump
  • The suspect skipped town when he found out the police were going to raid his apartment.From the entry skip town
  • The company came down on him like a ton of bricks after he was found skipping work.From the entry come down on
  • The image of druids skipping around dolmens is a mainstay of Celtomania.From the entry Celtomania
  • Skip the mushy, romantic scenes and get to the action.From the entry mushy
  • Is there a way to skip this long cinematic?From the entry cinematic
  • Hey chicken legs, stop skipping leg day!From the entry chicken leg
  • My friends went to the football game, but I skipped, as I had just dropped a lot of money on a new bike wheel.From the entry drop
  • They held an estate sale last Saturday, which cleared out everything that was saleable; what's left will require a skip for disposal.From the entry saleable
  • Some students, due to anxiety, skip the most important first step, which is to prewrite the thesis, and jump into the middle of the project, which is a fatal error.From the entry prewrite
  • They considered she may have parked the car or willingly gotten into another vehicle to skip town.2026 August 6, Nicholas Muhoro, “An Ohio Teen Vanished During a One-Mile Drive in 1994. Her Locked Car Was Found Hours Later”, in Skip…. From the entry voluntarily
  • Skip the Rollie and gift them a sleek Apple Watch instead.2024 May 10, Hannah Oh, Daisy Maldonado, “50 College Graduation Gifts That Say, “I’m So Effing Proud of You!””, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry rollie
  • “Skip-care is basically a fancy way of saying that you skip some of the steps.2023 April 9, Hannah Coates, “5 K-Beauty Trends To Amp Up Your Spring Skincare Routine”, in British Vogue, archived from the original on…. From the entry skip-care
  • Isn't skipping Albedo even though he's a good character literally the opposite of rolling for meta?2021 June 12, “Kazuha needed his C6 in his base kit...”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2021. From the entry metachurl
  • To test this page, skip the throwaway panel when reading; nothing is lost.2020 January 15, Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips Vol. 6: Clean as a Weasel, Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN, page 333. From the entry throwaway panel
  • Skip, man, was a shot.” And I’m like, “Rah, this is a bit of a weird reaction?”2019 June 6, Skepta, quoted in “Skepta opens up about becoming a father and enduring two heartbreaking miscarriages” by Narjas Zatat, Metro. From the entry rah
  • Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government.2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN. From the entry edge
  • We watched in dread fascination as he skipped lightly down the steps.2017, Thirteen O'Clock Press, The Call / Welcome to the Dance, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry dread fascination
  • You need to confine this superstition malarkey to a flaming skip.2015 February 11, Trev Downey, “Reasons to Believe”, in The Liverpool Offside. From the entry twonk
  • Also if you missplit, you can just undo it and skip the split.2015, “Livesplit Question : r/speedrun”, in Reddit. From the entry missplit
  • Did you skip any more grades this week?" he had teased.2014, J Santiago, Lex and Lu. From the entry Harvard

Meaning of skip

  1. verb To move by hopping on alternate feet.
  2. verb To leap about lightly.
  3. verb To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

Full definition of skip

Questions about skip in a sentence

How do you use skip in a sentence?
Skip is used as a verb and noun. For example: “She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.”
What is a short sentence with skip?
“to skip the country”
What does skip mean?
Skip means to move by hopping on alternate feet.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skip (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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