Definition of Skirting

skirting is going around something instead of straight through it

Examples of Skirting in a sentence

The daughter tried skirting around the truth about how she wrecked her car.  🔊

The teenagers are skirting around the mud puddles on their walk home because they don’t want to get their shoes muddy.  🔊

Advanced climbers enjoy the thrill of skirting along the cliffs instead of taking a safer route.  🔊

The criminal is skirting the reason he was at the crime scene on the night of the robbery.  🔊

Her grandmother asked her not to eat the blueberries set aside for the pie, now she is skirting around the fact that her lips are stained purple.  🔊

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