When he is walking into an interview, he treads delicately, almost tiptoeing through the office.

Still, with government policies relaxing, the official church has become an increasingly comfortable home to many Catholics, who are delicately treading a path to greater openness.

A couple of cats trod delicately along the roofs as they tracked small rodents.

She saw that it had small, oddly human feet; it trod delicately.

The reporter, treading delicately, had asked if it was a great sorrow to her when she and Walter separated.

Hans was now treading delicately; clearly, they needed my help with Maladek.

Treading delicately, like a cat, Aslan stepped from stone to stone across the stream.

I thought of snakes, and trod delicately.

If this was to be the new leader, he had to tread delicately.

Both sides in the debate are treading delicately, going out of their way to avoid seeming insensitive to the suffering of others.