How To Use Skive In A Sentence
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Taper and skive four thongs, form a loop with the small end of the longest strand, and seize all strands together.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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He won't be able to accuse me of having sold it on the black market and skived off with the proceeds.
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More From The Times Britons to skive off work for Murray semi.
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Dan called me a'terrible skiver ' when I caught up with him and it's true - I do skive off all the time.
POPCO
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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
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I absolutely hated school," Rachel says. "I skived off all the time.".
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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
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We have lost track of Dan but he probably wouldn't want to skive off something like this anyway.
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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
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In the end, I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date.
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I'm not sure what he was getting so upset about, but I think he was partly mad because some people had skived off the rehearsal.
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The skiver of the year trophy goes to Gerry from TWN Construction, for surfing in Newquay while claiming to be stuck up a crane at the redevelopment of Wembley Stadium.
What's Going On
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I am hoping to convince wifey to let me skive off for a couple of days from Brisbane to go.
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Objects from Sell Cave. a, Pestles or grinding stones; b, celt, pottery disks, paint stones, and skiver 46 17.
Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76
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‘I decided to give blood because it was a good skive out of the railway and after you'd donated you got your free tea and biscuits,’ he said.
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This is what I call the feast and flow," said Mr Pitskiver; while Mr
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
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Bone and shell in small amounts were found here, and among them the skiver shown at d in plate 36.
Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76
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So we skived off for another cup of tea and I lent him my towel.
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I don't know anyone who is impressed with the Welsh Assembly; they all seem like very second-rate skivers.
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A poll of organisers found that 80 per cent think there are too many skivers and people who should be delegates are staying away.
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Of course the rehab place, unlike the hospital, makes H do this routinely, and he tries, often successfully, to skive at home.
Henry’s Demons
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The vast majority of the truants would readily acknowledge in the aftermath that they were only out for a skive following a wind-up on the web.
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The train drivers must have called a strike, or a mass skive because of the heat.
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Taper and skive four thongs, form a loop with the small end of the longest strand, and seize all strands together.
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I skived the last lecture.
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If I hadn't skived off work early to go see, I'd have been angry at the waste of my time.
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(Oxford English Dictionary) [31.1] A skiver is a skewer onto which meat would be threaded for cooking.
Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733]
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There's a couple at work who I suspect think it was nothing but a skive, mind, but I fully expected that.
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The Brazilian culture has achieved true mastery of the art of doing nothing, or as they phrase it "vadiar." vadiar: to lounge about (não trabalhar), to idle about (não estudar), to skive (perambular), to wander
Daniel Cook: What Brazilians Can Teach Us About Relaxation
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Tesco has made a positive and brave step to kick work-shy skivers out of bed.
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Dan called me a'terrible skiver' when I caught up with him and it's true - I do skive off all the time.
POPCO
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I find Green to be an irritating little nyaff, but he is well-cast as skiver Colin.
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I had said to myself that I would go to the gym after Dame G and Dr Sir T but I skived off and watched News 24 instead.
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We have lost track of Dan but he probably wouldn't want to skive off something like this anyway.
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Yes, notwithstanding all of the above, I do love the odd skive on my tod.
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The point is that even those of a "skiver" mentality who entered employment with the more enlightened companies quickly changed their attitude.
Army Rumour Service
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Having said that, being a professional skiver, I have devised tactics, strategies and contingency plans to prolong skiving.
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Page 17 fer it looked like Martin an 'the Colonel was kinder in cahoot, an' my man diskivered that the lan 'had been sold long before it was mortgaged to me for taxes.
Northern Georgia sketches,
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He had come back having skived off on his birthday, so the lads had made sure he'd stay there.
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Ebay is the most popular site for workers on the skive with four in ten admitting that they trawl the auction site while killing time at work.
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Well, when I diskivered that what's-his-name was packed up and the waggin loaded, I took the liberty to borrow one o 'them there nuts fur a kind of momento, as it were, and I kept that in my pocket till we served the writ and he paid my bill and came to his milk, if you'll allow me that expression, and then I says to him,' Pardner, 'says
Remarks
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It was a warm, sunny Thursday and Belinda had skived off her unofficial work to join Astor for some sunbathing.
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Slackers and skivers everywhere should be grateful I'm not in charge.
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He was a skiver, and a thief, though when his back was against the wall there could be no doubt about his tenacity as a soldier.
THE OPEN DOOR
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You think I skived off without blogging anything today, right?
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Dan called me a'terrible skiver' when I caught up with him and it's true - I do skive off all the time.
POPCO
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There may have been some skivers, although not many.
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Tone of voice after having a skive off work the day before
It was all an act! | 世論 What Japan Thinks
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Then how do you know I skived off two other classes?
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He skived off quite a lot to go to band warm up session and meet people in the industry and it obviously paid off!
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The only reason Lindsay had an alcohol education programme to skive is because her expensive lawyers managed to swing it for her, in order that she might swerve jail time for a previous conviction – an offence that is considerably less easy to sympathise with.
Lindsay Lohan's prison sentence is an outrage
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‘He was a real skiver and scrimshanker, saved by the love of a wonderful woman,’ he said.
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W'en Mars Marrabo 'skiver' dat Sandy wuz gone, he 'lowed Sandy had runned away.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
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I decided to skive off school and tell my mum I had a bad headache.
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