How To Use Tiptoe In A Sentence

That will mean they are more likely to nod off as you're reading them a bedtime story, and then you can tiptoe away. The Sun
She leaned her bike against the stone wall and stood on tiptoe to peer over it.
But despite the brocaded swags, ornamental carvings and original works of art here, you won't feel you have to tiptoe down the corridors and talk in whispers.
True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
The police will tiptoe away and go and nick a few more motorists. The Sun

Tiptoe through the garden for a moonlit soak in the hot tub or simply cuddle up by the fire in your room.
So let us tiptoe past the legal mysteries and dwell instead on the known and the very exposed. Times, Sunday Times
The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
The carpet felt scratchy beneath my blistered feet, so I tiptoed all the way to the door.
Thank you, sir -- I thank you," he said, and, without more ado, tiptoed from the room. CHAPTER XXIV
And for what it's worth, I think the same things, but when sharing these thoughts with other people I do indeed try to "tiptoe", because I'm not just trying to share my thoughts -ultimately I'd like to persuade or at least challenge, make others reconsider and I think that's a lot easier with a more gentle form. Four Reactions to Charitable Requests, Plus One More to Charitable Demands, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Opening the door, Serenity tiptoed across the hall and opened the door to Haley's room.
As the coast became clear he advanced on tiptoe to the central office and assumed power, pausing only to open the royal refrigerator and slap together a deviled ham sandwich.
He tiptoed around it, trying not to get any of the putrid matter slop onto his fluffy bunny slippers.
He waited until his daughter was asleep, then tiptoed quietly out of the room.
She tiptoed carefully to the mass of captured men, praying that none of them would wake.
I tiptoed along the corridor.
You snake your way through mangroves where trees stand tiptoe on their roots to avoid sucking up much brackish water.
Clutching her dressing gown around her, she tiptoed down the landing into the bathroom. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Shoving her way through the peering folk enjoying their morning excursion, the Countess stood on tiptoe, trying to locate Alpiew. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
And it is a youth, standing tiptoe upon the earth, now waiting in unperturbed ease, now searching with unbridled zeal, who is lover and mystic. The Kempton-Wace Letters
With extreme carefulness, Sam tiptoed to the lowest kitchen cupboard and opened it.
Under the thick layers of Viyella shirt, lambswool sweater and ancient tweed jacket he could feel the tiptoe of goose flesh up his arms. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
She pulled her hair back and slowly, as quietly as possible, tiptoed down the stairs.
A fine time o 'day to bake his fourses cake!" the woman outside commented, reaching on tiptoe, the better to look in at the window. A Sheaf of Corn
Well then he struts, stands on tiptoes, bustles, and bestirs his stumps, shoves and makes way, and with much ado clambers up a sycamore. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
She stood on tiptoe to kiss him.
Carefully tiptoeing around the edge, he finally touched the bookshelf.
Tiptoeing down the hallway, she eyed the front door warily.
I went on tiptoe across the parquet flooring and grasped the embossed stem of the sacred cup. Seminary Boy
She leaned her bike against the stone wall and stood on tiptoe to peer over it.
He saw her stirring the embers of the dying campfire and tiptoed stealthily up behind her.
Billy Louise looked, found her vision blurring with her own tears, and turned and tiptoed from the room. The Ranch at the Wolverine
The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
They are simply the'other half' and have to tiptoe their way across a minefield of potential howlers. The Sun
As the coast became clear he advanced on tiptoe to the central office and assumed power, pausing only to open the royal refrigerator and slap together a deviled ham sandwich.
She got up and carefully tiptoed to her dresser, where the present rested on top.
A gerenuk on tiptoes, entwined in a thorn tree, lipping away the tender leaves. Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing
By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self-image. Disgrasian: Are Chinese Mothers Superior? You Can Decide for Yourself
One's senses become lulled to everything save bliss, for the clank and clamour of life have tiptoed from the room leaving you — I wasn't asleep. Janey Canuck in the West
The other girls would tiptoe down the hall and peek in on them, watching as they played cards and draughts.
If he stood on tiptoe, he could reach the shelf.
He saw her stirring the embers of the dying campfire and tiptoed stealthily up behind her.
I stood on my tiptoes and leaned over his shoulder, and an almost comical sight greeted my eyes.
She slipped out of bed and tiptoed to the window.
At two in the morning, I closed the door to my apartment without making a sound, took off my sandals, and tiptoed into my home without turning on a light. Brooklyn Story
Saturday Night Live" has, since its earliest days, shamelessly flirted with bad taste -- and sometimes taken a wicked delight in heaving itself over the line, rather than just tiptoeing up to it. Tom Shales reviews the opening show of SNL's 36th season
When we finally got there, after tiptoeing around carefully, Belladonna eased the door open.
He saw her stirring the embers of the dying campfire and tiptoed stealthily up behind her.
She tiptoed quietly out of the room so as not to wake him up.
Tiptoeing across the living room, Joyce took her stand by the table and called timidly, expectantly and awesomely: Joyce of the North Woods
She stood on tiptoe to reach the shelf.
They were tiptoeing around the delicate subject of money.
He slipped away from my mother's side, tiptoed across the room and made himself a cup of tea.
Fez opened the peephole, standing on his tiptoes to see who was there, then opened it.
The children stood on tiptoe in order to pick the apples from the tree.
That will mean they are more likely to nod off as you're reading them a bedtime story, and then you can tiptoe away. The Sun
My mother would tuck me in, turn out the lights and tiptoe out.
And then there's the conflict avoider marriages, where it's just too punishing for them to disagree on anything so they just tiptoe around the subjects.
They tiptoed along the wooden corridor past the closed door of the baby's room.
She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the top shelf.
Above Muir, you'll wend your way past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
The police will tiptoe away and go and nick a few more motorists. The Sun
We are in the Eggshell Era, in which everyone has to tiptoe around because there's a world of busybodies out there who are being paid to catch you out - and a public that is slowly being trained to accept a culture of finks.
For seven minutes I explore these objects, creeping and tiptoeing upon them, gradually gaining confidence as the music swells.
Did you ever get concerned about your little toddler walking around on his tiptoes all the time?
They loved to tiptoe dramatically across the bridge grimacing in anticipation of waking their imaginary monster.
I tiptoed religiously by it, went on up to the big house where the three women slept, as if drawn to their abode by a sort of heliotropism. Tramping on Life
Woodson was second on the scene and had a chance to two-hand-shove Crayton, who was tiptoeing along the sideline, out of bounds.
She threw back her bedcovers and tiptoed over to her desk, making sure she avoided the creaky floorboard under the ragged rug.
A masked juggler tiptoes on a hoop suspended in midair.
It can't be easy trying to tiptoe around a close family - she needed a lot of patience. The Sun
Most Picasso shows tiptoe nervously around it. Times, Sunday Times
The bikers are setting up a barbecue, and a spearfisherman tiptoes into the waves. Times, Sunday Times
Mother and daughter danced for a few moments, Molly spinning on tiptoes like a dainty ballerina, Christina gracefully moving to the beat.
I tiptoed back to my rooms in the misty half-light and prepared for bed as the town began to stir. Exit the Actress
McCain tiptoed around the news of the day, excerpts from former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s forthcoming book that accuse the Bush administration of using propaganda to convince the American public war in Iraq was justified. McCain says Obama's Iraq trip would convince him of success
Well done Geoffrey, you have successfully tiptoed around all those 600lb gorillas in the room without upsetting them. manasota The Guardian World News
She was trying to tiptoe down and at the same time keep hold of Anna, who seemed determined to stumble.
I can just reach the shelf, if I stand on tiptoe.
You don't have to tiptoe around if you want to tell a bad joke. Times, Sunday Times
She slipped out of bed and tiptoed to the window.
And now Timmy and Goody Tiptoes keep their nut store fastened up with a little padlock.
(mongolism) · cretinism walks with both feet tiptoe 1) Head Control and Use of Senses
Harvey is one of my favorite films and worth seeing just for Stewart's performance...a remake, even a 're-imagining' is a very bad idea - you can't make the same film because audiences have changed and changing the film for more modern times just doesn't make any sense - a guy like Dowd would be locked up in an instant today and all the crazy stuff with his sister wouldn't happen. atiptoe Tom Hanks Won’t Star In Spielberg’s Harvey; Who Will? | /Film
They tiptoed upstairs so as not to wake the baby.
As they watched, Emily stood on tiptoe to run her curious fingers over the medallioned wall. Once An Angel
Other songs recall Joy Division and Depeche Mode, as his brittle voice tiptoes to center stage with only a spare backing of guitars and drum loops.
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Add to all this that this administration seems to tiptoe around itself, and you get a tentative, ponderingly slow, left-leaning, promise making, but result-deficient reality. B.D. Gallof: Remember, Remember The 3rd Of November
There is enough room for a person to tiptoe through but not enough for more than one foot at a time on the sides near the railings.
The expression "tiptoed" is here used to indicate the extreme caution of Cap'n Cod's entrance, and his evident desire to effect it as noiselessly as possible. Raftmates A Story of the Great River
Because his kids head to bed long before he tiptoes in, Takashi fills his rare days off with their school concerts, hiking trips and Boy Scout meetings.
After midnight we tiptoed down the hallway and out the back door, without anybody seeing us.
The Leads are a greate many stepps up on the top, a Large Cupilow of windows, and ye walls round ye Leads are so high a person of a middle stature Cannot Look over them scarce when on tiptoe, which is a Greate Lessening of its beauty wch would give a Large prospect round of the Country of 10 or 12 miles off. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
Plus, of course, Lieberman doesn't "tiptoe" around the war issue - he actually supports the war in Iraq - still! Chris Durang: Lieberman's Mistaken Idea of Who's Polarizing
When Monty is on the tee, some guy in a black jump suit and mask tiptoes out and narrows the fairways, shrinks the cups and puts rattlesnakes in the bunkers.
I want increased liberty, equality and fraternity, not a diminution of democracy as we are tiptoed into totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
I had to tiptoe around the house. The Sun
Then I opened it wide enough for us to slide out and tiptoed across the hall to the storage closet.
Just to be sure that it was "snibbed," Mrs. McGuire tiptoed after him in her bare feet, a very bad thing for a sick-a-bed lady to do, too, but to her credit, be it written, she did not listen at the keyhole. Sowing Seeds in Danny
They tiptoed upstairs so as not to wake the baby.
Cooper tiptoes around the gorilla on the sofa for most of his book.
True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
Infante stood on tiptoe and pressed a finger against the white swirl of Spackle. EVERY SECRET THING
Sometimes, when Josie knew know no one would notice, she'd creep downstairs to the kitchen as quiet as a mouse and tiptoe out the back door when the cook wasn't looking.
Contrast that with the reaction to someone who isn't so socially skilled: "When he is in a bad mood, we kind of tiptoe around him. How to Be a Smart Protégé
Just to be sure that it was "snibbed," Mrs. McGuire tiptoed after him in her bare feet, a very bad thing for Sowing Seeds in Danny
Slopping down that paint as quickly as I could, I was working on a stretch of the roof called an eave, which I could barely reach, even on my tiptoes, when I came to a big, baggy-looking sack hanging stuck to a corner. Dark Dude
Shoving her way through the peering folk enjoying their morning excursion, the Countess stood on tiptoe, trying to locate Alpiew. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
moving with tiptoe steps
I am on the tiptoe of expectation for his coming.
After midnight we tiptoed down the hallway and out the back door, without anybody seeing us.
I had to tiptoe around the house. The Sun
Tiptoeing out into the hall, she sought her way through a maze of guest rooms until she reached a large sitting room she recognized instantly because of the yellow striped chaises beneath the windows.
I turned and ran up the steps, tiptoed inside, slunk down the hall past the closed door to Sally's room, and ducked into mine. THE SAVING GRACES
Horses walk on tiptoe, literally, unlike us when we walk on what we call tiptoe. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
We went along silently on tiptoe so as not to disturb anyone.
As he made haste and 'tiptoed' into our lane in front of us (again, traveling at 75MPH), he spun out in the side-ravine. Metal Underground.com
So let us tiptoe past the legal mysteries and dwell instead on the known and the very exposed. Times, Sunday Times
I tiptoed up behind him, planning to scare him and snap him out of the stupor he was currently in.
Seth reached his hand down to me and I stood on my tiptoes and grabbed his one hand with both of mine.
She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the top shelf.
I can just reach the shelf, if I stand on tiptoe.
I now appeal to the mandarins who have formed this tiptoe policy to re-examine it. Times, Sunday Times
I fetch a handful of paper towels from beside the wash basin, walking on tiptoe to avoid bloody footprints.
I am beginning to know it, dear Mademoiselle!" said the pitiful beguiler, slipping through the doorway on tiptoe. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
She then tiptoed to the transporter room, to see that Himeko wasn't there.
On either side were great forests of mangrove trees, standing tiptoe on their myriad down-dropping roots, each root midleg in the water. Euphemia Among the Pelicans
Before walking in I'd removed my shoes so as to make even less noise and now I held them in the crook of my elbow as I tiptoed across the entryway to the stairs.
We crept around on tiptoes so as not to disturb him.
Her feet tiptoed on the wooden floor, and her eyes concentrated on the window in front of her.
I gulped nervously as Andrea, Ariel and Mindy began to tiptoe closer to the security house, which was almost twenty feet away from them.
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. Doug Larson
The police will tiptoe away and go and nick a few more motorists. The Sun
Mr. Tiku is also starting to "tiptoe" into the iShares MSCI BRIC exchange-traded fund as emerging markets "have gotten decimated. Funds Build Cash, Tiptoe into Purchases
The police will tiptoe away and go and nick a few more motorists. The Sun
The children stood on tiptoe in order to pick the apples from the tree.
You had to tiptoe past his study. Times, Sunday Times
She stood on tiptoe to reach the shelf.
I went on tiptoe across the parquet flooring and grasped the embossed stem of the sacred cup. Seminary Boy
That will mean they are more likely to nod off as you're reading them a bedtime story, and then you can tiptoe away. The Sun
Arm outstretched upon the table, Briar watched as his wrist bubbled with gooseflesh and a shiver tiptoed along his spine.
The river slaps the embankment as you tiptoe between swaying tomato plants, through an impressive herb garden, past an infant hop plant and a potted olive tree. Times, Sunday Times
He was grinning with the expectant air of an ambitious toady as he balanced on his tiptoes.
Infante stood on tiptoe and pressed a finger against the white swirl of Spackle. EVERY SECRET THING
I want increased liberty, equality and fraternity, not a diminution of democracy as we are tiptoed into totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the top shelf.
The fat, rubicund little man would tiptoe into the room, finger on lip, half in order to amuse Elsa, half from a very genuine fear of disturbing or calling forth his learned son-in-law, with whom he found it impossible to fraternise. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
It's easy to understand why we tiptoe around the subject of stewardship. Christianity Today
You slip drowsily into your dressing gown and tiptoe quietly to the top of the stairs.
She tiptoed quietly out of the room so as not to wake him up.
It had always been so soothing to Scarlett to hear her mother whisper, firmly but compassionately, as the tiptoed down the hall:'Hush, not so loudly.
Hannah nodded, tiptoed across the cabin, snibbed the door quickly behind her. Kate Morton Ebook Collection
What normally seemed like a soft tiptoe, was now a stampede of horses.
Pointe-aux-Herbes and the eastern skyline beyond, he and Sweetheart alone, his hand clasping hers -- the tiller, that is -- hour by hour, and the small waves tiptoeing to kiss her southern cheek as she leaned the other away from the saucy north wind. Strong Hearts
Liz tiptoed to switch on the lamp on the bedside table.
Shorty stretched on tiptoe, brought his eye to the level of the bar, and gazed upon the horrent head of Bailey. Pardners
The moon was hidden behind a cloud and she couldn't see anything, but her ears could hear a suspicious tiptoeing around the front door.
The best way from the environmental perspective would be to kind of tiptoe into climate intervention: ramping it up gradually so if bad things started happening you could ramp it back down again. Scientific American
Her first instinct was to tiptoe away. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
Even the gents' foreign impersonations, an obvious peg for buffoonery, arrive on tiptoe. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone tiptoed around and spoke in hushed and reverent tones.
I dug in my handbag for my penlight, got up on tiptoe in my clumpy shoes, and rummaged in the first box. LEGAL TENDER
I had to tiptoe past him because those blind guys ... they've got some kind of supersonic hearing or something. Unclebob Diary Entry
Psyche has loosed herself from the fettering contact of Daimon, and lo, now, how daintily she poises on tiptoe, fluttering her wings ere she launches like a star into the wide exhilarant ether! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
She pulled off her shoes and walked carefully down the hall, tiptoeing.
Children can sort through the manageable bins without standing on tiptoes or upsetting a whole shelf.
She tiptoed across the aisle and sat down beside the motionless figure.
She stands on her tiptoes and playfully bites my earlobe, her gaze never leaving our mirrored reflection. Things You Can Do, Some Can't Be Done
She nodded, and tiptoed to pull a length of thick rope from the back of the cart.
We tiptoed out, quietly closed the door behind us, and made our way through the shadowy bushes.
They just adore tiptoeing around and shaking their heads when the broads shatter glass with their banshee wails.
When Monty is on the tee, some guy in a black jump suit and mask tiptoes out and narrows the fairways, shrinks the cups and puts rattlesnakes in the bunkers.
He tiptoed quietly up the stairs.
Standing on tiptoe, she arched her lower body to his scarcely needing the encouragement of his hand pressing against her spine.
She tiptoed to the bed where the child lay asleep.
Finally, an old hound which appeared to be gifted with a peculiarly robust temperament kept supplying the part of contrabasso, so that his growls resembled the rumbling of a bass singer when a chorus is in full cry, and the tenors are rising on tiptoe in their efforts to compass a particularly high note, and the whole body of choristers are wagging their heads before approaching a climax, and this contrabasso alone is tucking his bearded chin into his collar, and sinking almost to a squatting posture on the floor, in order to produce a note which shall cause the windows to shiver and their panes to crack. Dead Souls
Now I will have a fine surprise for her when she awakes," and the little girl tiptoed noiselessly back to the edge of the woods, where she had noticed a quantity of checkerberry leaves. A Little Maid of Old Maine
It went about like a mother who has found her child asleep at play, and who steals away atiptoe, finger on lip, lips smiling tenderly. Emma McChesney and Co.
The servants went about a-tiptoe, speaking in whispers lest their master should be irritated in his fever; the very banner on the tower hung limp about its pole, hiding the black galley of its blazon, now a lymphad of disgrace. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
She slipped out of bed and tiptoed to the window.
She slipped out of bed and tiptoed to the window.
Italians, Poles and Spaniards will tiptoe off home alleging their work is done.
He tiptoed over to a trapdoor in the roof and pulled it slowly.
The actors were all in a circle, warming up as we quietly tiptoed into the room.
She spoke with an accent, ate her rice with a spoon, and tiptoed carefully over puddles.
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Models tiptoed along in wedge heels and stilettos, and posed in front of giant propeller fans.
Tiptoeing like a ballerina is the power of art to transform us. Carine Fabius: What Can the Power of Art Accomplish?
While she was purchasing two yards of malines the vocal Raymie Wutherspoon tiptoed up to her, his long sallow face bobbing, and he besought, "You've just got to come back to my department and see a pair of patent leather slippers I set aside for you. Main Street
The cover of the latest Bookseller 1st August has an eye-catching 'Do you believe in fairies?' dialogue balloon, spoken by a rather tough-looking, almost Lara Croft-esque bewinged woman, either standing/flying on tiptoes or with way high heels. Mysti/Misty: separated at birth? maybe not.
But all of these "truth-telling," "ground-breaking," "ballsy," so-called rebels, however much they might now tiptoe around "the N word," tiptoe more around words hat would be really dangerous to use, especially in self-examination: The R word: Racist. Robin morgan: it's the hypocrisy
He quietly unlatched the door and tiptoed out of the bathroom.
The floor creaked beneath me, and I resorted to tiptoeing very quietly across the floor to the door.
It's easy to understand why we tiptoe around the subject of stewardship. Christianity Today
The river slaps the embankment as you tiptoe between swaying tomato plants, through an impressive herb garden, past an infant hop plant and a potted olive tree. Times, Sunday Times
People glimpse the spectre of their having to cough up their full premium once again and tiptoe to the dark side. Times, Sunday Times

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