tiptoe

Example Sentences

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“The art is to tiptoe up to the edge of what’s possible.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 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

Now, she’s a mom on the edge, a woman resigned to life’s fringes, where she must tiptoe around live grenades so as not to make anything worse.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025

While our backs were turned, he’d tiptoe back to the driver’s seat—a jolly Santa Claus in mufti—and press down on the horn.

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