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“It was almost like skipping a rock on a lake.

Do you have a pretty good arm and you want to know how to skip a rock?

To bounce the ball on the water, one must throw like skipping a rock.

Jon skipped a rock on the smooth stretch of creek.

Much like skipping a rock.

The strip began when 9-year-old Phoebe Howell, a girl in the fourth grade, skips a rock across a pond and accidentally hits a unicorn in the face.

After the house was lost in the trees behind me, I stopped to watch a stone mouse nibble on a purple flower before I skipped a rock at him and watched him scamper between two boulders.

"You could skip a rock off the heads of at least 20 screenwriters any time of day in this place," said Bill F. Kelman, the author of several B-movie scripts, paraphrasing a line from "Barton Fink."

On October 13, 2014, Williams uploaded a video entitled "Coolest Sound Ever" to his DudeLikeHELLA channel in which he skips a rock against a frozen lake and it makes an interesting sound due to flexural waves.

For example, the book "How to Dad" by John Boswell and Ron Barrett, recently published by Dell, gives instruction on everything from how to change a diaper and stop a nosebleed to how to skip a rock and bait a hook.

Head to the lake and see who can skip a rock the farthest.

â It was almost like skipping a rock on a lake.â

I watched Sam skip a stone across the water.

Dari skipped a stone five times and turned, smiling, to see if Paul had been watching him.

The childs eyes were blue now, by the water, and he seemed quietly intent on learning how to skip a stone.

Harrison compared this reflection to skipping a stone off the surface of a pond.

Torstensson slammed the flat of one hand into the other, as if skipping a stone off a lake.

A large blackboard was crowded with the calculations of skipping a stone across a lake.

Next time you kick a pebble or skip a stone, consider how far it traveled to cross your path!

So, you know, a kid skips a stone at the beach, and somewhere across the planet, a tsunami happens.

Dari skipped a stone three times and laughed.

Behind Brendel, Dari tried, not very successfully, to skip a stone.

We know fairly closely where it is going to hit the atmosphere but after that it is like skipping a stone across a pond.

Mr. Tolle is using one of the park's ponds to create ripples and droplets similar to those made by skipping a stone.

Can you skip a stone, Mr. Leavenworth?

"It was like skipping a stone on water," high over pedestrians' heads, explained the architect J. Max Bond Jr.

On the screen was nothing but a vast miasma of undulating space, as if the cosmos had become a vast lake and someone had skipped a stone across it.

University of Toronto scientist Stephen Morris and his colleagues concluded that the development of washboarding is very similar to skipping a stone across the surface of a lake.

After several minutes he looked disdainfully at my loopy topspin tennis forehand and told me to attack the ball as if I were skipping a stone across a pond, giving it underspin.

If the angle of approach is too shallow the spacecraft will skip off the atmosphere into a highly elliptical orbit which will take it far from the Earth (think about skipping a stone across a pond).

But he remembered a day, when they were back visiting Home on some business, and an evening, as the sun set, when his father took him down to the lake and taught him how to skip a stone across the water.

In "The Best Way to Skip a Stone," Clive Thompson and the French scientists to whom he refers may be too young to recall some important research, and actual applications from it, during World War II.

To spend a weekend dropping into its musty bookstores and sizable art institutions or idling between hilltop castles, divey small-town bars and doily B&Bs is like skipping a stone into a river: you bounce along, but barely break the surface.

To skip a stone across Heady Creek, where Ms. Johnson's house sits and where, in a different era, the tribe skated in the winter, would be to risk hitting any of the fresh-minted multimillion-dollar mansions that now form the Shinnecocks' views, or the powerboats that streak by in the summer.