WordNet
n. a dance performed on tiptoe [syn: toe dancing]
Usage examples of "toe dance".
On the darkened screen of his eyes he saw the mortician's table, saw the sheet covering Marjorie Glick's body start to tremble, saw her hand fall out and begin its delicate toe dance on the air - He opened his eyes.
On the darkened screen of his eyes he saw the mortician's table, saw the sheet covering Marjorie Glick's body start to tremble, saw her hand fall out and begin its delicate toe dance on the air He opened his eyes.
Just here Grampa trod upon a small flagstone path that led across a broad stretch of lawn and never finished his sentence at all, for the stone rose a foot into the air and started bouncing across the green at such a rate the old soldier teetered backward and forward and did a regular toe dance to keep his balance.
There was a hot flicker of pain that stabbed up the backbone, then ran around the ribs and began doing something on the order of a toe dance in Thomas' stomach.
The little toe dance she did would probably scare a mouse senseless, and Scotty discovered that she would stand her ground even if he mimicked her sideways attack and advanced upon her.
To toe dance down that skittish ribbon that separates life from death was to know what existence was all about.