Long-toed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a toed clog; toed stockings. ,three-toed sloth. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The pitcher toed the mound, wound up, and threw a fastball. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to toe in. From Dictionary.com.
This way, as a few people have suggested, France once again toed the American line. From Wordnik.com. [UN diplomacy stalls (again)] Reference
He ran the back of his hand along his mouth and offered her an expression that toed the line between nauseated and mildly amused. From Wordnik.com. [Last Night at Chateau Marmont] Reference
Shoes must be close-toed and socks white and long. From Wordnik.com. [Yoani Sanchez: Four Centimeters of Tolerance] Reference
Mr. Sampras imitated Mr. Agassi's pigeon-toed walk. From Wordnik.com. [The Rivalry New York Has Never Seen] Reference
His old steel-toed boots dragged across the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man and the Cigarette] Reference
Arethusa toed the mark, although with a very bad grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
He called women's feet in open-toed shoes nice biscuits. From Wordnik.com. [Lester Young: 'The Prez' Still Rules At 100] Reference
A little girl with tangled orange hair practices walking pigeon-toed. From Wordnik.com. [Skyscrapers] Reference
She tip-toed down it, her step making no smallest sound on the soft carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Her toenails were painted, and she wore open toed shoes, despite the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Two Months Before, Two Months After] Reference
Lotta just shrugged and returned the woolly, two-toed slippers to the closet. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Coggins: Chasing Lotta] Reference
Citizens toed the line during the 40-year Stalinist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Europe's Wild West] Reference
The Palestinian leader was free to dispense the cash to those who toed the line. From Wordnik.com. [Something Rotten In Palestine] Reference
And one of summer's wackiest uses of the platform: jacked-up open-toed sneakers. From Wordnik.com. [Where Have All The Sandals Gone?] Reference
If you look closely, you might even spot other six-toed felines still wandering about. From Wordnik.com. [Kraig Becker: A Perfect Day in Key West] Reference
I hunched over, with my arms curled up to my chest like a T-Rex, and tip-toed forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Mouths of Babes] Reference
Start with snug-fitting clothing and a pair of sturdy work boots, preferably steel-toed. From Wordnik.com. [Tip of the day: How to safely use a chain saw] Reference
Neatly-fitting boots, square toed, and of the most elaborate manufacture, encased his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
In vain they pecked, hissed and scolded at the huge legs and two-toed feet of the ostriches. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
Much more conditionally than my sister, who toed the line and did everything she was expected. From Wordnik.com. [Carolyn Hax: Mom withheld love; what can be done about it now?] Reference
Now, a nice textured pair of tights in the fall, with a round-toed pump, well, that could work. From Wordnik.com. [Melanie Benjamin: How to Dress an Author] Reference
Later, after Kate began to snore, even louder than he remembered, Paul tip-toed out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Vague Obscenities] Reference
At Charles Jourdan, open-toed lace-up mules resemble boxing shoes or ice skates on a stacked heel. From Wordnik.com. [Where Have All The Sandals Gone?] Reference
The low-heeled, square-toed shoe -- that is now in vogue -- is the thing to wear, and blessed be the. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
She tip-toed up to the corporal who was posting the relief and asked him where he was going to station her. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference
The curé, about to speak, tip-toed over to the firing-slit and let down cautiously one of its compartments. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
He tip-toed from the room, thoroughly frightened and nervous, and sent a message to Lucian Davlin forthwith. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Then he picked up a basketball, toed the line, closed his eyes -- and swished a shot through the rusty hoop. From Wordnik.com. [The Outside Shooter...And The Fighting Pilot] Reference
Greater astonishment still followed the withdrawal of the sock, and the revelation of a white five-toed foot. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Through a long period of development, the present day one-toed horse descended from this many-toed primitive horse. From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
And don't be afraid to pair them with open-toed shoes — yet another great way to move your warm-weather items into winter. —. From Wordnik.com. [A Fabulous Fall] Reference
Yet time after time, she has toed Clinton's basic hard line on crime, even when it deviates from her own more liberal inclinations. From Wordnik.com. [Reno's Darkest Hours] Reference
When Fred toed the scratch alongside Felix Wagner and the new Paulding sprinter, he did not underestimate either of his antagonists. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
"It was fine; wasn't it?" whispered Clara, as she and her brother tip-toed their way into the house, so as not to awaken their parents. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
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