Tiptoe is an English word with synonyms like tip or quiet. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tiptoe meaning
The tip of the toe.
Using Tiptoe
- The main meaning on this page is: The tip of the toe.
- Useful related words include: tip, quiet, tippytoe, walk.
- In the example corpus, tiptoe often appears in combinations such as: to tiptoe, tiptoe around, on tiptoe.
Context around Tiptoe
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tiptoe
- In this selection, "tiptoe" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, silva, away, near and towards stand out and add context to how "tiptoe" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include artists to tiptoe as close and as we tiptoe towards a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tiptoe" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tiptoe
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I started to tiptoe. (4 words)
And yet, here we are, having to tiptoe around some who find it offensive,” Laurie wrote. (16 words)
Over the past few years, topics we used to tiptoe around have slowly become the pinnacle of growing conversations. (19 words)
He has become the object of much criticism over the years, from his less-than-stellar interviewing skills, his annoying habit of laughing too often when there’s not even a joke, and the awkward way he tried to tiptoe around the Trump presidency. (44 words)
The staggering drop-off in oil price this month exposed the fragility of current energy markets and as we tiptoe towards a decade of economic fallout caused by the outbreak, is that a risk that financial players want to continue fuelling? (41 words)
You might tiptoe around a boss or professor and stay quiet when they press your buttons, but if a family member does the same thing — especially if it happens more than once — you’re bound to snap sooner or later. (40 words)
The staggering drop-off in oil price this month exposed the fragility of current energy markets and as we tiptoe towards a decade of economic fallout caused by the outbreak, is that a risk that financial players want to continue fuelling? (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
G’luck, I thought, as I started to tiptoe away, having completed my read-aloud portion from The Swiss Robinson, which we’re making our way through together each night.
She will only tiptoe there, by praising other women governors — she has hosted a group of them on Mackinac — and calling them all doers.
So I’d tiptoe around my laundry on the bathroom floor thinking I should clear this mess — and then move on to something else.
With that said, our excitement is building around how far designers are willing to tiptoe into the realm of even nastier footwear.
He has become the object of much criticism over the years, from his less-than-stellar interviewing skills, his annoying habit of laughing too often when there’s not even a joke, and the awkward way he tried to tiptoe around the Trump presidency.
The stunning property, on Wootton Road in the village of Tiptoe, near Lymington, is up for sale with Austin & Wyatt.
In it, some children who say they are “not scared” push through tall grass, swim across a river, squelch through mud, stumble through a forest, trudge through a snowstorm and tiptoe into a cave.
The staggering drop-off in oil price this month exposed the fragility of current energy markets and as we tiptoe towards a decade of economic fallout caused by the outbreak, is that a risk that financial players want to continue fuelling?
Trying to tiptoe around this fate by focusing on appearing constructive brings an additional peril: it binds Labour into parameters dictated by the government, leaving little room for manoeuvre.
You might tiptoe around a boss or professor and stay quiet when they press your buttons, but if a family member does the same thing — especially if it happens more than once — you’re bound to snap sooner or later.
I started to tiptoe.
Over the past few years, topics we used to tiptoe around have slowly become the pinnacle of growing conversations.
The EU competition commissioner has the world’s biggest companies walking on tiptoe, afraid of her habit of enforcing competition law where the US authorities have refused to do so.
And yet, here we are, having to tiptoe around some who find it offensive,” Laurie wrote.
However, there’s a frisson of excitement, an erotic charge even, in knowing there are boundaries that cannot be crossed, and for artists to tiptoe as close to the line as possible.
Iniesta and David Silva tiptoe and tiki-taka their way into the box from the left and Portugal cannot cope and dare not dive in to tackle.
She explains that a spider will go to a high branch on a tree or to the top of a tall blade of grass, and stand on tiptoe, with its abdomen pointing up.
That sparked a plane-speaking debate with her social media followers that the former Strictly Come Dancing contestant did not tiptoe around.
The mini-program marks the latest step in Google’s tiptoe back into China’s consumer market, and comes after it last month invested $550 million into e-commerce company JD.
While speaking with Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and Willow Smith on the show, Pompeo said, “Don’t feel like you have to tiptoe.
Common combinations with tiptoe
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to tiptoe 9×
- tiptoe around 7×
- on tiptoe 5×
- tiptoe and 3×
- tiptoe into 2×