How to Use tiptoe around in a Sentence

tiptoe around

phrasal verb

• There’s no room to pity the gazelles who must tiptoe around him.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
• Take a break from tiptoeing around them and just stand up to ask them what's on their mind!
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
• The egotist The egotist is characterized by a huge sense of pride that has to be tiptoed around.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
• The small building footprint has less impact on the land and tiptoes around the critical root zones of these trees.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 23 June 2023
• In the present day, everyone tiptoes around touchy topics, trying to avoid grappling with the problems right in front of them.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
• In their remarks, the candidates all tiptoed around mentions of the former president.
  — Michelle L. Price, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• The governor has also tiptoed around slamming Trump, who remains well-liked among most Bluegrass State voters.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2024
• No crusty etiquette to tiptoe around—just an exquisite canvas ready for whatever wedding whim comes its way.
  — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2023
• Finally, don’t encourage your daughter to tiptoe around your spouse.
  — Meghan Leahy, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• Up in the hills, the big car tiptoed around the forested corners, occasionally tricked by the area's off-camber tilts into giving a downshifting cough, but never with enough force to disrupt the conversation.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 5 Aug. 2023
• Instead of a firm answer to the question, Brady — who now lives in the city — tiptoed around a possible return and spoke about his relationship with members of the Miami organization.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
• Wray’s response tiptoed around the question but provided a rare insight into how the FBI has used location data to surveil Americans without any court oversight.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2023
• If instead the history is of your spouse’s volatility and your tiptoeing around that, then please seek individual counseling.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• Refusing to tiptoe around her is an appropriate course of action regardless.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• Conversation, sometimes playful, tiptoed around the tragedy.
  — Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• The episodes are built around long conversations between Rya and Danny, in which the investigator tiptoes around sensitive spots while pressing, gently, for real answers.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• NBCUniversal parent Comcast tiptoes around strike amid profit gains.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• In tiptoeing around such extreme sensitivities, TV’s new thrillers end up inhabiting moral universes where characters, bereft of personal convictions about things like justice or the common good, can only make selfish decisions.
  — Time, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024