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Sentence Examples They loved to tiptoe dramatically across the bridge grimacing in anticipation of waking their imaginary monster. The other girls would tiptoe down the hall and peek in on them, watching as they played cards and draughts. You snake your way through mangroves where trees stand tiptoe on their roots to avoid sucking up much brackish water. The pointe shoe has come on the ballet scene in recent years and allows the dancer to poise indefinitely on tiptoe. Italians, Poles and Spaniards will tiptoe off home alleging their work is done. I gulped nervously as Andrea, Ariel and Mindy began to tiptoe closer to the security house, which was almost twenty feet away from them. I'm going to spend the next few months trying my damnedest to tiptoe through the mine fields of other people's political passions. You slip drowsily into your dressing gown and tiptoe quietly to the top of the stairs. 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. High-heeled shoes force women to continually walk around on tiptoe, placing all the body weight on the ball of the foot and pushing the foot toward the toe of the shoe. But both papers fail to deal with this fundamental issue in a meaningful way and tiptoe around it. As a result, Darwinism had to tiptoe round the issue of how human society and behaviour evolved. 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. Now I'm risking it in French and it is something I aim to do on tiptoe, slowly, and with a good dose of humility. What was odd and fantastic was that people left in silence, almost on tiptoe. But it doesn't help if you tiptoe around us like you're afraid to say the wrong thing. His stance is unsteady, because he must stand on tiptoe or on a platform to demonstrate his authority. Newborns are perfectly able to sleep through normal household noise, so there's no need to ask your children to tiptoe around the baby. I stood on tiptoe and tried to make myself taller so that I could see more. They came on tiptoe, closing the door behind them, and stood at the foot of the bed, looking on. Show More Sentences Keen of expression, quick of movement, on the tiptoe of expectation at any movement. It is a corporeal ethos as children stretch, jump, slide, tiptoe, step cautiously, hold hands, fiddle with each other's hair and lift and swing each other round. Romney, on account of his wealthy personal life, has to tiptoe around policies that redistribute wealth upward. What normally seemed like a soft tiptoe, was now a stampede of horses. 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. 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. If Romney tries to run or tiptoe away, he will trip over his own flip-flops. A couple of ladies, standing on tiptoe, are scribbling over it with eyeliner and lipstick. Raise up on tiptoe, then drop your heels slightly below the level of the step. Why should we all go around on tiptoe forever pretending the kid's not a hophead? I gazed in awe at the worn stone staircase that wound up to the second floor of the Beaux-Arts building, feeling almost compelled to tiptoe, as if entering a cathedral. And on Wednesday, local authorities on the Canadian side said no to Nik Wallenda, the seventh-generation funambulist who had sought to be the first man, woman or child to tiptoe above the rushing gorge in more than a century. I tiptoe to the edge and, lying down flat, my hands clutching the cliff's rough stone, I peer over the precipice to see something that would steal the sleep from the most heat-tired of eyes. In this context, South Africa's tiptoe diplomacy on homophobia in Africa exposes the troubling underbelly of current leadership on democracy and human rights. Fortunately, nanotechnologists today do not have to tiptoe around so much. I know it came as a shock to the government members that the Liberal Party was prepared to embrace all of Bill C-36, not just the parts we wanted to tiptoe around. Yet, for the first time since the early 1990s, that is the reality facing the Blågult as they tiptoe nervously into a transitional period filled with uncertainty. And I don't want to invoke any of our witnesses in the specifics of this, because that would be unfair, but we're not even talking neutrality if what we're saying is we just are going to tiptoe around this crisis. Lift yourself on tiptoe as high as possible. In selective forestation, despite its material weight of 12.5 tons, the Menzi Muck harvester is able to tiptoe along the forest floor, thereby eliminating the risk of damage. Show More Sentences The establishment has to tiptoe around her and handle her delicately. One takes off one's hat before him, and goes weavingly on tiptoe. Examples from Classical Literature Standing on tiptoe, I glued my eyes to the narrow slit which was our only ventilation. She had to go on tiptoe through the shrubbery and out through the church yard. The yacht seemed to tiptoe away from the scene of the bathyscaphe's destruction. Kedzie stood on tiptoe, primevally trying to lift her ears higher still to hear what followed. A right instinct sent him tiptoe over his lawn, another made him doff his mortarboard. It would not be truthful to say that she came on tiptoe, her build not warranting that mode of progression. I forgot all my tatters and stood on tiptoe in the stirrups to overpeer the fence-row. After the Pavane came the courante, a court dance performed on tiptoe with slightly jumping steps and many bows and curtseys. Every man, woman, and child in Dunedin knew the car, and there was tiptoe excitement. With a tremendous effort he went quickly up the remaining steps, stood on tiptoe to unlatch the door, and pushed it open. She stood on tiptoe, bending forward, and held her ear to the half-open door. The Nancy that was stands on tiptoe, every eager and tameless bit of her hoping, hoping. Mortimer said that the man had walked on tiptoe down that portion of the alley. On tiptoe she went to the garret window, and peeped round its edge. Most of his hearers were silent now, on tiptoe of expectation. Presently, she heard the step again, as she would have done if it had been that of a feather endowed with motion and walking down on tiptoe. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. She then went away, walking on tiptoe out of the room, as if she supposed her young friend's affliction could be increased by noise. The uncivil little thing stood on tiptoe, and whispered a sentence in Heathcliff's ear. Wragge, looking submissively down at her husband, whose head, when he stood on tiptoe, barely reached her shoulder. Show More Sentences The world seems to be on tiptoe, listening for a thunderstroke of Fate. The responsible man, with a start, obeyed, and went out on tiptoe. The journalist stood on tiptoe, for as yet he did not understand. They were met by a deacon with a censer and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. He made his way there, walking on tiptoe, although his feet fell noiselessly upon the thick carpet. Once in the churchyard I made my way on tiptoe to the graveside. Is it nothing that, where the pavement is rotten, I have to walk on tiptoe to save my boots? My coming had not aroused her, and so I stole nearer to her on tiptoe. However, as it must be done, I went down, after two or three false starts half-way, and as many runs back on tiptoe to my own room, and presented myself in the parlour. Blushing as red as any rose that she should have intruded into a gentleman's bedchamber, and for such a purpose, too, she was about to make her escape on tiptoe. Coming on tiptoe across the room he tapped George Willard on the shoulder. Three minutes later the old man and his sons, well armed, were up the hill, and just entering the sumach path on tiptoe, their weapons in their hands. And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot. This one mystic branch hung down before the main entrance of the Seven Gables, so nigh the ground that any passer-by might have stood on tiptoe and plucked it off. She stole on tiptoe to the window, as cautiously as if she conceived some bloody-minded villain to be watching behind the elm-tree, with intent to take her life. Find more words! 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