Sentence examples for a toe on from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a toe on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a physical toe or metaphorically indicating a small part or aspect of something.
Example: "He dipped a toe on the edge of the pool before deciding to jump in."
Alternatives: "a foot in" or "a taste of".

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They can do almost everything right, but they're facing a team doing them one better, with karma keeping a toe on the scale in their favor.

Another thing, when I was very small, at eight after the amber lamp in the hall was switched off, when the night-light shone, I used to feel one of my digits grown massive but weightless, a toe on the loom, waxing, palpitating frontiers of the room.

Sometimes it is the man who places his weight on the ball of one foot, the other foot pointing down to rest a toe on the floor (this is called "the needle"), while the woman promenades him.

He hurt his left knee and a toe on his left foot Sunday against the Houston Texans.

After he returned from his injury, this time with proper footwear, he broke a toe on his other foot.

Manuel acknowledged that he had been unaware of the extent of the surgery Thomas had on his right ankle and a toe on his right foot last September.

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"There is a little bit of a toe to toe going on at the moment.

Last week, federal drug regulators proposed stark new warnings for cigarette packages to scare smokers straight, including one showing a toe tag on a corpse.

There are some irresistibly simple, dancey steps (the tapping of a pointed toe on a precise diagonal; the sharp switch of three dancers from facing one diagonal to another).

Moments later Donovan fails to get even a little toe on a great chance in front of goal.

Your actual toes do not fit into a pointed toe on a shoe, so most of that point is extra space.

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