tiptoe

If you can’t remember what it was like to try to tiptoe while swooning, your heart barely able to stay in your chest, you were never a teenager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

He is betting the Western alliance will be healthier if America’s allies candidly air their disagreements with the president, rather than tiptoe around him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Put all together, investors may remain understandably uneasy about the topic, even if they start to tiptoe back into oversold areas.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

We tiptoe around finances because we’ve been programmed by society to link our personal value to our financial status.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026

Jake went up on tiptoe so he could see Dominic’s math scrawls.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

You may find yourself joining the crowds on the sidewalk, balancing on your tiptoes while you peer through open windows at the nearest TV, a snack from a nearby street vendor clutched in your hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

That mordant humor, however enjoyable, tiptoes around the unanswerable question of how, or even whether, we can tell the difference between cosplay and the real thing.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Behind them, a slim figure reaches up on tiptoes, but the 1-month pad is still out of her reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

As the hearing ended, some of Mr Combs's supporters lingered at the door, on their tiptoes hoping to catch a sight of the rapper as he was escorted away.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024

Instead, she tiptoes along the basement wall, having adopted a battle stance I’ve seen in the shonen manga she loves to read.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

I slipped on waterproof shoes, grabbed a pair of shears and, still in my pajamas, tiptoed down the grand staircase of the château and out onto the dewy grass of the garden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

But having tiptoed cautiously throughout its first year in office, the question is whether this government can convince those potential investors that the economic vision is real?

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025

He tiptoed around the house, the camera held out in front of him, sometimes for up to 10 minutes for a continuous shot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

In a haunting approach, the parents tiptoed toward an eerily lifelike replica of their child’s body and carefully transferred the silicone doppelgänger to an operating table.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2024

Coal tiptoed downstairs and to the back of the house where Doc’s office was.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Any hope Gianni Infantino might have had of tiptoeing away from the scene of his World Cup private-investment wreckage having sustained only minor damage to his reputation disappeared on Saturday.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Goldman board members and partners had grown accustomed to tiptoeing around the topic of Ruemmler and Epstein in front of Solomon, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Investors tiptoeing back into Chinese stocks may want to consider companies that would benefit both from the rise of AI and a potential effort by Beijing to boost consumption.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

“Be back in a minute,” Peggy Jo told her mother, tiptoeing past her room.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025

Occasionally, he would rest an elbow purposely on the edge of the table, and make believe he didn’t notice some child who had slipped out of a chair and was tiptoeing toward him.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey