How to Use skirt in a Sentence

skirt

1 of 2 noun
  • The skirt of her coat got caught in the car door.
  • They put a protective skirt around the base of the machine.
  • She was wearing a short skirt.
  • Pants and skirts were slung low on the hips.
    — Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The skirt fell long with a pooled side train.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 20 May 2026
  • Madewell’s satin maxi skirt can be worn year-round.
    — Genevieve Cepeda, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The shape of the skirts echoed the shape of the word.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Swift looked bridal in a long, flowy white skirt of silk.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Jil Sander’s white slit skirt with pink knit.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Jean jackets and skirts that look worn in.
    — Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the women wear skirts but not tops.
    — Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 25 May 2026
  • Sporty-meets-pretty in this flowy skirt.
    — Michelle Rostamian, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Pair any back to skirts, dresses, or even trousers.
    — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The look featured a satin drop bodice and sheer lace skirt.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The look featured a satin drop bodice and sheer lace skirt.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And then there's the red-and-white gingham skirt.
    — Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Care to match the sheets to the bed skirt for a full effect?
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This chic skirt is just begging to be worn and twirled around in.
    — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2026
  • My mother looked so chic and sexy in it, with the tight skirt.
    — Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The women would lie down in front of the judges, lift their skirts.
    — Laura Vazquez, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Pair it with jeans, trousers, or a midi skirt and call it a day.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Here’s how to style a jean skirt like the fashion pros this spring.
    — René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Throw it on with a maxi skirt and boots for dinner, and you’re set.
    — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The dress featured a long, floor-length skirt with a slit in the back.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
  • Available in a light or dark wash, this style is part skirt, part shorts.
    — Natalie Alcala, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
  • This skirt is maybe the real hero of this story.
    — Natalie Cantell, InStyle, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The star also wore a matching red skirt with a slit.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The star also wore a matching red skirt with a slit.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There are four denim styles in the line, and one’s a skirt and one’s black.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Pair it with a favorite pair of denim jeans or a skirt.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025

skirt

2 of 2 verb
  • The road skirts around the lake.
  • We skirted around the edge of the city.
  • He tried to skirt around the question.
  • Pine trees skirt the northern edge of the pond.
  • They tried to skirt the new regulations.
  • The mayor skirted the issue by saying that a committee was looking into the problem.
  • The land that skirts the gulf is a vast time machine.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Kees is part speakeasy in vibe, but built to skirt any pretense.
    — Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • SpaceX is skirting the whole buildup process.
    — Ari Levy,leslie Picker, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • The bodice attached to an oversized black tulle skirt with a low rise.
    — Tara Larson, Footwear News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • There’s nothing that feels as timeless as a blouse and skirt for date night.
    — India Roby, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2026
  • There are tactics managers can use to skirt leading with fear.
    — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Tibi showed dark wash denim trousers and skirted baggy jeans.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But some users have already found ways to skirt those protections.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, it is skirted around, with a throwaway line on race.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Even the billionaires who do have cash to burn are just skirting by, out of choice.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • But considering the state of what’s out there, skirts a very fine line.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • The levies, though, are not so easily skirted.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025
  • These people are supposed to be brilliant good guys adept at skirting the law.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Her statement-making pieces consisted of a top and skirt with a pair of brown knee high boots.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 11 Feb. 2024
  • On a cloudy day earlier in the week, streaks of dirt appeared to skirt the top of the dome’s surface.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • Using longer shipping routes to skirt the route through the strait is adding to costs for many companies.
    — ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • Dress the cardigan down with jeans and white sneakers, or wear it over a dress or skirt for work, dinner, or events.
    — Nicol Natale, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Is there a case for just keeping your head down in the hopes of skirting controversy?
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • Webster said the guns skirt federal and state laws and are a growing problem.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
  • Swift lit up the stage in a sparkly, sporty crop top and skirt during her 1989 set.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
  • There’s one small car park at the far end of the beach, reached by a winding single-track road that skirts the water’s edge.
    — Rosie Conroy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Both helped Trump skirt an initial war powers rebuke in the House last month.
    — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2026
  • At one point, family members skirted the line.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • Even in pitch-blackness, bats can skirt around branches and pluck minuscule insects from the sky.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022

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