Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skive
Verb
-
Her hair, which was shaved down to a buzz cut for her surgery, appeared to be much darker than her usual blonde.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025 -
Newcomers like closer Devin Williams, who has already shaved off his signature beard from his days with the Milwaukee Brewers, are among those who could start letting their facial hair grow out again.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
28 Feb. 2025
Verb
-
Dramatic new video shows the jet’s rear landing gear buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after making a hard landing.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
19 Feb. 2025
-
Rescue workers sheared his clothes off him with scissors, put a brace around his neck and laid him on a board.—
Katherine Rosman,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Verb
-
The annual Caribbean Series club tournament finishes up the preliminary round on Tuesday with a pair of games, after which the field will be whittled from five teams down to four.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
-
The Rays started the arbitration process with 12 eligible players but whittled that group to five.—
Marc Topkin,
Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2025
Verb
-
That meant some old Hollywood masculine tropes through a female gaze—suits with nipped in waists, leather pants like chaps, sharply tailored denim.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
-
The courts, which have so often otherwise championed the principles of federalism, should nip this in the bud before then.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2025
Verb
-
The boat was docked in Westport, a popular commercial fishing port at the southern end of the Olympic Peninsula.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
-
Satellite images taken in October show a cargo ship being loaded at Rajin port in North Korea, and the same ship docked two days later at Dunai in Russia.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
Verb
-
The tech-heavy index briefly reached a 10% decline from its most recent closing high, which is what the market considers a correction, but gains for Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech heavyweights helped pare those losses.—
Alex Veiga,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
-
The Stoxx 600 provisionally closed 0.51% lower, paring earlier losses, as autos shed 4%.—
Jenni Reid,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
-
Or dress these poppers up and switch the cheddar cheese for more sour cream and top the potatoes with a sprinkle of salmon roe and snipped chives before serving.—
Lynda Balslev,
The Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2025
-
Houseplant pruning shears: on sale for $17.99 Original price: $19.99 Make snipping and trimming your plants a breeze with these Modern Sprout pruning shears on Amazon.—
Nora Colomer,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025
Verb
-
The ornithology curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County placed handfuls of feathers between two small screens and clipped them together with zip ties.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2025
-
The Colombian reached a set point when a net cord ball clipped the outside of the sideline and converted that chance after Osaka missed a return.—
Manasi Pathak,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Articles Related to skive
Cite this Entry
“Skive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skive. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share