How to Use tiptoe in a Sentence

tiptoe

1 of 2 noun

• Keeping the one knee glued into your chest and heel to glute, come up on to the tiptoes of the foot that is still on the floor.
  — Shauna Harrison, SELF, 28 Mar. 2023
• The other girls stalked around the stage, strutting on their tiptoes.
  — Lizzie Feidelson, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• The ones that want to get the information out kind of tiptoe around.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 10 Jan. 2018
• Marcine lifted the lid, got on his tiptoes and peeked inside.
  — Tim Rohan, New York Times, 22 June 2016
• Many of the women’s turns were executed with the foot on half tiptoe rather than fully on the tips of the toes.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• This means that in their board meetings, people talk on tiptoe.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• The room was hot and sweaty and smelled like feet, and Red Bull skydiver Jeff Provenzano was struggling to hold a squat on tiptoe.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2018
• It’s the thing so many series and movies tiptoe near, without getting their hands and stories around.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• The girls crept into the kitchen; Lulu stood on tiptoe to see over the top of the kitchen counter, surveying what their uncle had brought them from the party.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Women are still held to standards that men on their tiptoes could never reach.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2019
• Spectators spring onto their tiptoes; a kid whoops and punches the air as the sled barrels through curve six.
  — Nick Pachelli, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
• Standing on her tiptoes, López peered out at the rivers of protesters streaming along the avenue.
  — Camila Osorio, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• In America’s Game, the end of an era departed on tiptoe.
  — Michael Farber, SI.com, 2 July 2018
• All four Beatles separately tiptoe to the edge, to sneak a peek at the street below.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2021
• As the song approached its end, Brown stood tall on his tiptoes, then shimmied his way down, line by line, bringing all the voices to a whisper.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 27 July 2019
• In his illustration, Mr. Zubaydah shows himself nude and shackled at the wrists to a bar above his head, forced to stand on tiptoe.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019
• In the front yard there's a black granite monument with a silhouette of Michael Jackson on his tiptoes with an image of the moon in the backdrop.
  — Javonte Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2017
• Patients should not have to guard against hostile providers or navigate the health care system on tiptoe.
  — Amy Stulman, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2019
• Our spring had always arrived on tiptoe and sat in the back row, the opposite of the ebullient temperate-zone season.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• The water level in the tank gets lowered by 200 gallons so that, on tiptoe, a wet-suited Gilboa can shout instructions.
  — James T. Bartlett, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2020
• Rather than tiptoe around the issue, as presidents have so far, Biden should name and shame these bad actors—and take powerful action to stop them.
  — Lydia Millet, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
• To create these monsters, though, the adult child needs to answer the phone, copy her key, surrender her uniforms and tiptoe around parental criticism.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• The collective psyche of the Big Orange is already so fragile that embattled coach Butch Jones has to walk on tiptoes.
  — David Caraviello, ajc, 2 Oct. 2017
• Rather than struggle to a breakdown or breakthrough, mother and child tiptoe to acceptance.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Within a few years, players from other Bay Area teams, local sports announcers and journalists got on their tiptoes and joined the fun.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2017
• Explosively raise up onto your tiptoes, lifting the med ball high and throwing your arms over your shoulders.
  — David Otey, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
• On Tuesday, the Live with Kelly and Ryan host shared a very impressive photo of herself wearing some satin pointe shoes and balancing on her tiptoes.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• The pop star, 39, posted an image of a child standing on tiptoe alongside another pair of bare feet to her Instagram on Tuesday.
  — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• To access some of the more tightly packed tables, anyone who’s not a string bean is forced to enter seats sideways, sometimes on tiptoe, and invade a neighbor’s space one of two ways: by butt or by crotch.
  — Tom Sietsema, The Denver Post, 16 June 2017
• To access some of the more tightly packed tables, anyone who's not a string bean is forced to enter seats sideways, sometimes on tiptoe, and invade a neighbor's space one of two ways: by butt or by crotch.
  — Tom Sietsema, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2017

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tiptoe

2 of 2 verb

• She tiptoed through the puddle.
• He tiptoed quietly around the house to avoid waking the children.
• At the time, the Asian reaction was mostly to tiptoe around the news that came out of Wuhan.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2021
• Over the past year glitter has tiptoed back on the beauty scene.
  — Andrea Lavinthal, Cosmopolitan, 6 Mar. 2009
• In the workplace, the default course of action is to tiptoe around the elephant.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• The guy was trying to tiptoe the sideline, try to keep picking up yards.
  — Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• Agholor tiptoed in bounds after the rolling Foles found him on a comeback.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
• But Trump has a habit of tiptoeing to the brink of displeasing his base and then pulling back.
  — vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• De León, 50, is tiptoeing around the land-mine issue of ageism.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• That’s a startling fact that’s hard for anyone to tiptoe around.
  — Kent Somers, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
• Bryan Harsin, if that doesn’t work, then just tiptoe out the backdoor when no one is looking.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Mar. 2022
• At the hospital, McGilvrey stood on her tiptoes to peer through a window and see her son.
  — Jessica Ravitz, CNN, 4 Oct. 2017
• Google also must tiptoe around that whole free speech thing.
  — Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2017
• Rose has learned how to tiptoe around his moods and alpha male outbursts.
  — Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 21 Oct. 2017
• Three cats — sometimes tiptoeing over the books on the tables — add some charm.
  — Jane Perlez, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• But the press shouldn't tiptoe around this story anymore.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 25 Aug. 2019
• On 3rd-and-goal, Carr rolled to his left, sidestepped to buy time and threw a dart toward the edge of the end zone to Renfrow, who tiptoed inside the boundary on the catch.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• To be fair, the U.S. has tiptoed into the quota trend, but not via Washington.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2020
• A businessman in a suit can't resist glancing at his phone and tiptoes away to make a call.
  — Jessica Ravitz, CNN, 19 July 2017
• When Freeze was asked about the talent gap between Auburn and some of the the leaders in the league, he was left tiptoeing and stammering.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 24 July 2023
• Now weighing 345 pounds, 1-month-old Travis stuck close to Belle’s side, tiptoed near the water, laid down in a bed of hay and received a dust bath!
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
• Of course, teaching that you, in effect, can tiptoe around them … that risked angering the church.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Find your voice, find the strength to stand up to pressure, then find joy in walking your own path vs. tiptoeing on somebody else's.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive.com, 25 June 2019
• Find your voice, find the strength to stand up to pressure, then find joy in walking your own path vs. tiptoeing on somebody else’s.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 26 June 2019
• Jimenez says this has given the armadillo a reason to tiptoe north.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2022
• Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t tiptoe around the truth, no matter how grisly.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2022
• That was the message all week — all month, really — with USC still tiptoeing along the precipice of its season.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• But now, officials believe the time has come to tiptoe away from such full-fledged support.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• The boys of winter leave warm beds in darkness, tiptoeing out of bedrooms, lugging heavy bags, sticks, and skates.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Beavers, quail, and deer, which haven’t been seen in the area in decades, tiptoe through swampy ponds early in the morning, while migratory birds alight overnight on knolls before flying south.
  — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024