How To Use skittishly In A Sentence
- But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery.
- The horses slithered down the shallow bank and onto the glassy surface at a rapid trot, but the black was mistrustful of the insecure footing and jibbed skittishly.
- Gillian Keith fizzed skittishly and effortlessly as Zerbinetta, an acidulous sop to Orla Boylan's munificent, creamy but variably toned Ariadne. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
- the horse pranced around skittishly
- ‘Aww, thanks, Viv,’ Fiona replied skittishly, ‘I hope Dom will feel the same way.’
- She took long breaks for costume changes and behaved skittishly, giving her backing singers a disproportionate amount of vocals. Whitney Houston
- All of the regional actors now alter their calculus a bit, but none more obviously and skittishly than Karzai because he is really the one whose neck is in the noose. US Withdrawal from Iraq Looms Over Afghan War
- Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions. Moby Dick; or the Whale
- Cassandra jumped skittishly as the door banged shut, suddenly dampening the sound of Randy's squabbling parents, leaving her in silence.
- The horses began stamping the ground skittishly.
