Stealthy activity

Usage examples of tiptoeing.

Pork, tiptoeing, reached the ring in the chain and drew the lamp slowly down until the table top was brightly bathed in light and the ceiling receded into shad­ows.

Then there had been tiptoeing feet and hushed voices, muffled knocks on the door, neighbors rus­tling in to whisper sympathy and occasional sobs from Frank’s sister who had come up from Jonesboro for the funeral.

The whole household was acutely conscious of the burning light, Scarlett, Mammy, Prissy and Pork, frequently tiptoeing upstairs to make sure that it still burned.

Then, as Ruby jumped from the water, Amarante noticed a deer tiptoeing through the sagebrush fifteen yards from where the woman had bathed.

For thirty-five years, in one capacity or another, I've been tiptoeing through their lives.

Or tried to anyway, tiptoeing out on shallow rocky ledges, ducking under the icy water for a second, then stampeding noisily toward shore.

Out of habit, he found himself tiptoeing, though his parents hadnt slept in the old farmhouse for over five years.

She had spent a lifetime tiptoeing around the great Tony Morrelli, letting his opinions be the only ones, his feelings more important than anyone elses.

Out of habit, he found himself tiptoeing, though his parents hadn’t slept in the old farmhouse for over five years.

She had spent a lifetime tiptoeing around the great Tony Morrelli, letting his opinions be the only ones, his feelings more important than anyone else’s.

I've got agents tiptoeing all around her, but the guy thinks he's in love with her, and his buyer has watchdogs sniffing around, and we simply can't snatch her without blowing the whole thing sky high!

He balanced caution and temptation by tiptoeing down the hall until he could see through the narrow crack between door and jamb.

She was quiet, or at least tried to be, tiptoeing through the shack with her shoes in hand.

Karen had clear memories of those days, of his sullenness, his long bouts of drinking, tiptoeing around him lest she set off his temper.

I wasted twenty-two months tiptoeing around, thinking that you held it against me that I was the one who’d been wounded.