Sentence examples for skirt around the problem from inspiring English sources

"In a way, we skirt around the problem, basically by not doing it.

Someone wrapped a tree skirt around the weed.

Why skirt around the issue?

Use of the skirt brought the problem of making skirts durable enough to withstand the friction wear produced at high speeds through water.

Just one of the opportunities the script chooses to skirt around.

It is easier to skirt the problem, especially when it doesn't hinder current performance.

You skirt around some etiquette.

Problem No. 1 is the lawsuit that House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner is threatening to file over what Republicans feel is Obama's wanton use of executive orders to skirt around congressional inertia.

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

This argument cuts to the very heart of the issue and no longer skirts around the edges of the problem.

Another recent approach sought to go around the problem by finding languages that had the most unusual features, skirting the question of whether those features were "hard".