tiptoe

When Eucharistic ministers moved through aisles to distribute Communion, they had to tiptoe around knees and handbags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Put all together, investors may remain understandably uneasy about the topic, even if they start to tiptoe back into oversold areas.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

We tiptoe around finances because we’ve been programmed by society to link our personal value to our financial status.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026

Now, she’s a mom on the edge, a woman resigned to life’s fringes, where she must tiptoe around live grenades so as not to make anything worse.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025

“Is Bunny there?” she would say, stretching up on tiptoe and craning to look past me into the room.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

You may find yourself joining the crowds on the sidewalk, balancing on your tiptoes while you peer through open windows at the nearest TV, a snack from a nearby street vendor clutched in your hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

That mordant humor, however enjoyable, tiptoes around the unanswerable question of how, or even whether, we can tell the difference between cosplay and the real thing.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Behind them, a slim figure reaches up on tiptoes, but the 1-month pad is still out of her reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

"The team approached this work almost on their tiptoes," he tells me.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

Mr. Williams’s class emerged out the back door, and Hazel stood on her tiptoes scanning the faces.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

John Wollman tiptoed carefully around the issue of the Texas subpoena at the heart of the suit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Powell tiptoed away from saying how the Fed would answer that riddle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

But having tiptoed cautiously throughout its first year in office, the question is whether this government can convince those potential investors that the economic vision is real?

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025

Eyal Ben-Ari tugged at the heavy assault rifle hanging over his shoulder as he tiptoed out of his pink house at sunrise, hoping not to wake his wife or six children.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2024

Then he tiptoed, carrying the flashlight to his window.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

And so looking back, you can see how I was tiptoeing around and it took a little moment before they really let me just let what my instincts were telling me to do, fly.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Goldman board members and partners had grown accustomed to tiptoeing around the topic of Ruemmler and Epstein in front of Solomon, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Investors tiptoeing back into Chinese stocks may want to consider companies that would benefit both from the rise of AI and a potential effort by Beijing to boost consumption.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

“Be back in a minute,” Peggy Jo told her mother, tiptoeing past her room.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025

To stay she would have to explain herself, so she slipped away into the darkness, tiptoeing quickly over the slabs of stone and the scented herbs that grew between them.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan