Skimming

The dragonfly was skimming across the water.

I'm skimming his report right now.

If you want to get a long-drawn benefit from this book, don't think once skimming the cream is enough for that.

I'm skimming Tom's report now.

Try skimming a scientific paper once in a while.

Sometimes there was only the width of the road between the imposing precipices on the right and the clear cool water on the left with its shoals of uncatchable fish skimming about through the bars of sun and shadow; and sometimes, in place of the precipices, the grassy land stretched away, in an apparently endless upward slant, and was dotted everywhere with snug little chalets, the peculiarly captivating cottage of Switzerland.

She never reads emails thoroughly, skimming through them instead.

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I was forced, too, to wonder if my previous world-views had not been too pallid, too superficial, and altogether too 'rational' — mere skimmings or skatings on the surface of reality[…]