Sentence examples for I skirted around from inspiring English sources

As for the happy ending request, "I skirted around that," Gogerty says.

Bennett's genius is for the imploding situation in which a cleverly made house of cards shudders and comes down; the comments of his characters as they nimbly pick their way around the wreckage ("I suppose there's a word for what I'm doing," the spinster says, "but... I skirt around it") verge on aphorism.

No longer will I skirt around topics to make others comfortable, nor will I be apologetic for taking a stance that caters to the two parts of me that need to have a voice.

Revisiting the book now, I skirt around its problems, envy its resourceful and intractable heroes.

I told Debby there was no way I could skirt-around the contentious political agenda and religious biases -- the "bones of contention" or "apples of discord" -- that surround her father, Pat Boone, one of the most successful Pop singers of all time.

I was skirted around potholes, lifted into the hayloft, shown an old jackdaw's nest and the rainwater barrel.

This just in from Hilton Als, a staff writer at The New Yorker: I have skirted around Helen Mirren for years, having relegated her to the Judy Geeson category: both a poor man's Julie Christie, slightly too funky.

You skirt around some etiquette.

He didn't skirt around racism or sexism, either.

'Well, we must hurry on, pass over or skirt around that word.

It's a piece of ineffable eccentricity, baffling and skirting around brilliance.