He moved toward the sound, carefully skirting a wall of crumbling stone.

When the highway was built, it carefully skirted Stanley, leaving its citizens adrift.

Carefully skirting a large stand of sweetstripes, Brightspot led her into the forest.

Carefully skirting a prickly hedge, he reached the door in question.

He started toward the next in line, carefully skirting this one.

After dinner they talked about lots of things, each carefully skirting the thing uppermost in their minds.

Melicard, carefully skirting her, came around and offered her a chair.

Michael carefully skirted the burrows so as not to disturb them.

She started on, without another glance at me, skirting carefully about the edge of the circles, across a country which was rough going.

My mind was alert now, and in the broad daylight I carefully skirted the clearing.