Skirted

I felt that he skirted around the most important issues.

We skirted green hills, which sparkled in the first rays of sunshine.

With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across the garden, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfield.

Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge, and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the grey boulders.

The storm skirted past the capital, and rail traffic and local flights in and out of Tokyo were mostly running on schedule Thursday, after severe disruptions Wednesday. Northern Japan, however, is still seeing some transportation delays.

[…] a small glass box in which you wander, swivel, waver, flashing your flesh like a skirted girl doing cartwheels on the lawn.

Carefully the child tried to cover her deformed leg under her skirted pyjamas.

Women should wear skirted suits or dresses with dress shoes; pantsuits are not usually worn.

The women whose new jobs required pants, overalls, or skirted uniforms broke dramatically with convention.

a skirted topic of conversation