How To Use skive In A Sentence
- Taper and skive four thongs, form a loop with the small end of the longest strand, and seize all strands together. THE SHIPPING NEWS
- He won't be able to accuse me of having sold it on the black market and skived off with the proceeds.
- More From The Times Britons to skive off work for Murray semi. Fed Express Fails to Deliver
- Dan called me a'terrible skiver ' when I caught up with him and it's true - I do skive off all the time. POPCO
- By the heyday of the binder's craft, the early to mid eighteenth century, two types of leather were recognized as the best: skiver, or lambskin, which was strong but so thin that it scarcely required any paring, and Moroccan goatskin, which was highly valued for its skiver-like characteristics combined with its delightful reddish color. Books: Modernity's Abuse of an Art
- I absolutely hated school," Rachel says. "I skived off all the time.".
- After his family moved from a home close to Parkhead to a flat near Ibrox, Dalglish befriended a young Rangers player called Alex Miller and it was not unknown for him to skive off school in order to hang around the club before cadging favours from a senior pro. Kenny Dalglish expects respect but no free ride from Sir Alex Ferguson
- We have lost track of Dan but he probably wouldn't want to skive off something like this anyway. POPCO
- De niggers soon 'skiver' dat he wuz a Yankee, en dat he come down ter Norf C'lina fer ter learn de w'ite folks how to raise grapes en make wine. The Goophered Grapevine
- In the end, I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date.
