Skim used in a sentence

Skim in a sentence as a noun

I can skim an article / blog post and glean most of the salient points.

As a heavy HN user, I often skim the front page to see what's happening.

It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly.

It lets you control how much is seen on screen depending whether you want to read it in depth or skim it.

Skim in a sentence as a verb

I'm really fed up of sites like this that hijack scrolling, it prevents you from skim reading.

"Did you read anything else before you went into Political Strike Mode, or did you just skim it?

" Either they assume the user scans for "Ok," when wanting to close something, or that they skim sentences from the inside-out.

" In a way we're conditioned to expect a bunch of garbage filler that we merely skim, and because that's what's in demand right now it's what authors are incentivized to provide.

Skim in a sentence as an adjective

Occasionally I skim through the new stories and if I see something interesting there I might upvote it.- For comments, I upvote comments I find particularly helpful or insightful.

The premise behind a dark pool is that institutional buy-side investors would use them instead of a lit exchange because they want to trade against other buy-side investors, without market-makers and aggressive, automated sell-side firms to skim off their profits.