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  • verb Present participle of toe.

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Examples

  • -- _Page_ 240.] "That's what I call toeing a man out of trouble," punned Dick, in the general relief that followed.

    The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Richard Bonner

  • Her sound has been described as toeing the line between playful folk and pop, with some deep soul thrown in.

    Charleston Daily Mail - 2010

  • It's called toeing the line, as in reference to boot camp and showing up and the DI telling you to stand on the line as your journey into what it is to be a soldier begins.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • It's called toeing the line, as in reference to boot camp and showing up and the DI telling you to stand on the line as your journey into what it is to be a soldier begins.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • It's called toeing the line, as in reference to boot camp and showing up and the DI telling you to stand on the line as your journey into what it is to be a soldier begins.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • On Stevens and Ginsburg, again, I do not see them "toeing" the dem party line.

    TPMDC Morning Roundup 2010

  • The right wing, on the other hand, wants McCain's positions and statements covered positively regardless of their merits, as long as he toes the line (a toeing which is also to be covered positively) on core issues like abortion and immigration.

    Politico on Press Bias - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • Inez Wilson was endangering her life and limb "toeing" and each time she pirouetted on those toes, without the usual padding of the oriental shaped supports, a perfect flock of other dancers slid from danger of her avalanche.

    Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft

  • Each player after touching the outstretched hand of the "next to run" places himself at the rear of his row, which keeps moving forward so that the next to run is always "toeing" the original line.

    Games and Play for School Morale A Course of Graded Games for School and Community Recreation Melvin W. [Editor] Sheppard

  • The last player, having deposited the object in the circle, races back to the line which the front players were originally "toeing".

    Games and Play for School Morale A Course of Graded Games for School and Community Recreation Melvin W. [Editor] Sheppard

  • I will define “toeing” and Riese can correct me if I’m astray. So, we understand that if you are digitally or manually stimulating someone’s genitals, we might refer to that as “fingering.” And so, kind of in the same vein, if someone is stimulating another person’s genitals but using their toes rather than their fingers

    The Kind of Sex We’re Talking About Today, Part Two: Toeing Laneia 2021

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