How To Use Skittishly In A Sentence
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But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery.
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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.
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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
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the horse pranced around skittishly
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‘Aww, thanks, Viv,’ Fiona replied skittishly, ‘I hope Dom will feel the same way.’
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She took long breaks for costume changes and behaved skittishly, giving her backing singers a disproportionate amount of vocals.
Whitney Houston
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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
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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
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Cassandra jumped skittishly as the door banged shut, suddenly dampening the sound of Randy's squabbling parents, leaving her in silence.
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The horses began stamping the ground skittishly.
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It goes back to the 05 Ashes I think; his fresh-faced schoolboy appearance and demeanour, skittishly, coltishly hopping around the crease in defence, against Warne in particular.
The Guardian World News
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Rose looked at Kylie, who glanced around her skittishly, all the spark gone from her eyes.
When Rose Wakes
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Backstage, Trump has a case of nerves, skittishly pacing and shaking his legs to the beat.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
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I was also delighted by the way that Anna of Little Red Boat skittishly bent the concept towards her own ends.
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The blaze-faced chestnut was sensitive to the change in mood and began acting up, breaking stride and dancing skittishly around a turn.
Western Man
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I remember skittishly taking refuge in my own amused mother's lap the night before I moved far from home for my first real job.
Fly Where I Can't Hold You
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Then he skittishly ducked beneath the counter so that when the barista had turned round from the coffee machine she would be greeted with the sight of no-one calling to her.
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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
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In a clearing past a grove of olive trees, a snowy white lamb stands skittishly behind its grazing mother.
