| They move skittishly with their hands and feet, followed by slower, extended phrases. |
| We began cheerfully, one might almost say skittishly, but our light-heartedness was gone by the time the first potato was finished. |
| He threw a pine cone at a squirrel, who ran away skittishly up a tree. |
| For years, critics of Mr. Berlusconi stayed skittishly off the record, worried about jeopardizing their futures in a patronage society in which the billionaire Berlusconi has been the leading patron. |
| The horses slithered down the shallow bank and onto the glassy surface at a rapid trot, but the black was mistrustful of the insecure footing and jibbed skittishly. |
| Brathwaite fended skittishly to Root at short leg and the hosts went to the interval in trouble on nine for one. |
