31.   Other Internet holdouts, like Oakley, the maker of futuristic sun glasses, are also beginning to dip their toes in the online waters.

32.   Others like to visit from time to time, dipping a toe into presidential waters.

33.   Rather than dive into the general-manager market, the Dodgers are dipping their toes in the candidate pool.

34.   REITs have even begun to dip their toes into the chilly waters of the still-depressed downtown office markets.

35.   Show World first dipped a toe into the theater business as a landlord.

36.   The company, based in Reston, Va., only recently dipped its toes into the lending business.

37.   The Colfax boys know better than to dip their toes in Acid Brook.

38.   The following year, Fannie Mae dipped its toe into direct-to-consumer advertising by testing commercials and print ads in seven cities.

39.   They decreed that the city was not going to dip its toe in the chilly waters of modern kitchen technology until some tests could be conducted.

40.   Two Bay Area companies dipped their toes into the empty public offering swimming pool Thursday.