| But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery. |
| Brathwaite fended skittishly to Root at short leg and the hosts went to the interval in trouble on nine for one. |
| In a clearing past a grove of olive trees, a snowy white lamb stands skittishly behind its grazing mother. |
| They are about style, while skittishly refusing to vote for one style or another. |
| 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. |
| We began cheerfully, one might almost say skittishly, but our light-heartedness was gone by the time the first potato was finished. |
