Skit

"Skit" in a Sentence (21 examples)

The skit was presented by fifth grade students.

The skit was hilarious.

This skit is very funny.

To all appearances, their skit seems almost improvised. However, it is in fact the result of careful consideration and rehearsal.

Mary was wearing a tight-fitting skit.

Rachel Solomon has been a Comedy Club member at the school for two years. This year, she wrote a skit based on her personal experience.

What a skit!

It's a really good skit.

That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.

However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

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... there come on a 'skit' of rain, and I made for one of his barns for shelter.

Suddenly there came a little volley of sharp drops - not of the liquid he desired - dashed into the trumpeter's red face , and against the back of the parson's hat - the first skit of rain, that seemed rather to rise as if from a blow-pipe, than fall from the clouds.

Diana did not obey him, but stood in the rain. 'I don't care for a skit of rain.' 'Get in, quick.' When she did not move he sprang up, and catching her up in his arms, set her down in the hollow.

The Cause and Nature of the Skit, or Scour, of Sheep and Lambs.

[…] quality in the seeds which he cannot account for, that of killing lambs at about ten days old; they die of the skit, or scouring; and it is particularly experienced in new inclosures; […]

... the "skit." A practised eye can generally tell for two or three days before it commences what is coming on. The lambs look dull, their coats are staring. Generally the scour is of a dark greenish colour - sometimes almost[…]

... lambs, and on the appearance of the skit or scour, the necessity for a change of food is indicated.

Yet soon's she hears me mention Muirland Willie, / She skits an' flings like ony towmont filly- […]

The big man stood across, as if to hide the cart; but the man behind the horse skitted back into a bush, very nimble and clever, but not quite smart enough.

I could feel her eyes skitting over to me after she said something that might have shocked me - but I stayed quiet.

Micah watched the cloudcast shadows skitting over the snowfields before him – then screwed his face up in surprise when some of them seemed to come to a halt. He looked up. The clouds were still moving , and when he looked back at the plains he realized that the motionless grey shapes were not shadows at all.

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