What is "tiptoed"

Usage examples of "tiptoed".

She tiptoed to hand dippers to ambulance drivers and of each she questioned, her heart in her throat: “What news?

She tiptoed back to thi door and peered around the corner, trying to keel out of sight.

Melanie patted her shoulder and Pittypat tiptoed heavily about the room pulling down the shades.

Scarlett tiptoed above the crowd and saw the captain of the militia mounting the or­chestra platform.

She rolled the table under the window, gathered up her skirts, climbed on it and tiptoed to reach the heavy curtain pole.

A dozen times she tiptoed to the door to listen for noises downstairs but the hall below lay like a black silent pit.

Now, as she tiptoed across the room toward the quiet figure, panic clutching at her heart, she knew that Melanie had been her sword and her shield, her comfort and her strength.

She tiptoed to bring her warm cheek comfortingly against his and with one hand she smoothed the back of his hair.

He listened carefully at the entrance for a long time, then tiptoed toward the source of illumination.

So she knew of Henry Darrow and now tiptoed, like an awed sycophant, to the bedside and stared down at a face she hadn't noticed before.

Orange cats tiptoed daintily to the food which had been put on the side for them, while the dogs went home to their kennels to eagerly await scraps from the feast.

Tisha checked his feet again, applied another coat of numb weed and tiptoed out.

Ever since the two queens had killed each other ten days before, Lytol had been sunk in such a deep gloom that Jaxom had tiptoed around the Hold.

Slipping out of his bed, Jaxom noiselessly opened the door and, carrying his sandals, tiptoed out through the kitchen.

Gingerly she slipped from the bed and tiptoed down to the nursery to cuddle her daughter and reassure her that she wasn’t in danger of starv­ing.