touch lightly
Example Sentences
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“I’ve got my boys over there. I built some really good relationships, so try to keep in touch lightly with everybody.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2017
And both touch lightly on Mr. Hiaasen’s serious concern with toxic pollution.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2013
It manages to touch lightly on all aspects of life, from war and poverty to square meals and love.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, then, is the Conversation Hour: the time to touch lightly on the need for a new vacuum cleaner, his gaucheries at last night's bridge party, the prospects for remedying his cultural poverty .
From Time Magazine Archive
In his reports to Edna, a certain delicacy had made him touch lightly upon the traces of Davenport's love-affair.
From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Stephens, Robert Neilson
