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Answer for the clue "Stays en pointe? ", 7 letters:
tiptoes

Alternative clues for the word tiptoes

Word definitions for tiptoes in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. The tips of the toes. n. The tips of the toes. vb. (en-third-person singular of: tiptoe )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, n.; pl. Tiptoes . The end, or tip, of the toe. He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. --Chaucer. Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. --Spenser. To be a tiptoe , To stand a tiptoe , To stand on tiptoe or To be on tiptoe , to be ...

Usage examples of tiptoes.

She had stood on her tiptoes, clinging to the table's edge, and watched as Shea, who made wonderful cakes, practiced making dozens of roses from icing before decorating Maris's wedding cake.

Her response was immediate and wholehearted, as she rose on her tiptoes to fit her hips more intimately to his.

He screamed, lifting on his tiptoes as if hauled there by an invisible hand.

Up on top I have to buy my clothes off the kiddie rack and stand on my tiptoes to see over everything except jackrabbits.

Even when she stood on her tiptoes, Hawk’s shoulders blocked her view of the clock.

Kathleen was on her tiptoes trying to reach the knots holding her hands.

She carefully rose up on her tiptoes in the soft grass and kissed me passionately on the lips.

Higher and higher the draegloth lifted, until at last Faeryl was on her tiptoes, frantically trying to lift herself off this impaling spike by her arms alone, tears streaming down her face.

She turned to Mister Wolf, stood on her tiptoes and kissed his bearded cheek.

He reached the table, stood on his tiptoes and, raising the lid, he put his hand into the iron cask over which Ctuchik had been gloating.

Standing on his tiptoes, he reached across the block to retrieve the glowing stone.

He raised up on his tiptoes to peer out through the small barred window in the door.

She ran around his desk, went up on her tiptoes, kissed his check, then stared at him a moment, kissed his mouth, hers tightly seamed, and it didn't matter a bit.

She stood on her tiptoes and said right into his face, "I haven't made up a single thing.

She went up on her tiptoes and kissed his mouth, running her fingertips over his black, black eyebrows.