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Example sentences for "tiptoed"

Lexicographically close words:
tipster; tipsters; tipsy; tipt; tiptoe; tiptoeing; tiptoes; tiptop; tique; tiques
  1. It was damp in the cave; sunlight rarely tiptoed farther than the entrance.

  2. Nevertheless, when God had called to the Man, they had tiptoed nearer to listen.

  3. Anon, the gallants drew their swords and crossed them in the air, while the ladies tiptoed in and out.

  4. Thus lost in selfish reflection, he did not observe, or, if he did, cared not for, the frail figure and sweet face of one who cautiously tiptoed into the greenroom.

  5. He tiptoed unsteadily across the room, and proceeded with much difficulty to insert a straw in the small opening.

  6. We alighted at the Chapel, tiptoed about several corners to break the scent; then I took off my shoes and stole up the back way like a good and faithful husband.

  7. Slowly the People waken; they have been, Like weary soldiers, sleeping in their tents, While traitors tiptoed through the silent camp Intent on plunder.

  8. She thrust the letter quickly beneath the line of her low-cut bodice and tiptoed up the stairs with slinking, feline stealth.

  9. In an instantly arranged conspiracy, Nan tiptoed over to her friend.

  10. As he tiptoed down the path, the gravel turned beneath his tread.

  11. Peter rose to his feet and tiptoed over to the still face lying on the pillow, framed in the golden hair.

  12. What that excursion meant to her, what thoughts tiptoed to and fro inside her head, he never knew.

  13. Clutching his boots against his breast, with ridiculous caution for so fat a man, he tiptoed down the stairs.

  14. She caught him by the lapels of his coat and tiptoed against him.

  15. The night quickened; the ghostly feet of a little breeze tiptoed across the tree-tops, causing their leaves to rustle.

  16. They tiptoed and looked up anxiously when addressed.

  17. Out of curiosity Peter tiptoed over; the Faun Man gazed out at him with laughing eyes.

  18. Her thoughts tiptoed for that reason--so that no one might ever guess.

  19. One evening, while the angel was whistling, she tiptoed into his bedroom.

  20. He slipped out of bed in the darkness and tiptoed to the cupboard.

  21. When her husband had tiptoed out to his bath, she rose hastily and commenced to dress.

  22. Lifting out their parcels, they tiptoed into the cabin.

  23. Ten minutes later, Rosalie tiptoed from the library from which she had observed the seance to the last detail of method, and made her way to the closet wherein she had shut Dr.

  24. Rosalie tiptoed to the desk, bringing pen and ink, which she laid on the table beside Norcross.

  25. So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.

  26. One after another the cadets stole out in the dimly-lit hallway and tiptoed their way to the teacher's apartment.

  27. By the aid of the light, they tiptoed their way across the loft floor and down a narrow pair of stairs.

  28. He tiptoed his way into the tent and felt around.

  29. Georgie rose, tiptoed to his door and listened.

  30. He hitched the sleepy animal to a pine tree just off the road and tiptoed toward the hollow, the appointed rendezvous.

  31. Then, to Georgie's chagrin and disappointment, he took up the lamp and tiptoed into the dining-room again.

  32. George Washington looked at him in sleepy wonder as he tiptoed into the barn and lit the lantern.

  33. She tiptoed down the hall and Emily followed.

  34. They left the ladder where it was, and tiptoed fearfully out to the lane.

  35. Instead she tiptoed to the kitchen and the woodbox, took from the latter the last few slabs of pine wood and, returning, filled the stove to the top.

  36. You don't think--" Thankful had tiptoed back to her own room and was returning with the lamp.

  37. With one more glance at the occupant of the sofa Mrs. Barnes, lantern in hand, tiptoed from the room, through the barren front hall and up the stairs.

  38. She put her arm about the young lady's waist and together they tiptoed back to Thankful's bedroom.

  39. Gathering the dust carefully, and looking demurely askance at Guida the while, she tiptoed over again to the fireplace and threw it into the chimney.

  40. With a little moue of mockery, she got slowly up and tiptoed across the floor, like a child afraid of being scolded.

  41. So she tiptoed to the door of Jane's room and rapped.

  42. I--I thought you might be in bed," and the contractor now tiptoed into the hall and stood in the parlor doorway.

  43. Rising, she tiptoed from the parlor into the hall and to the door.

  44. An hour later, when the boys and Major Dale returned to the apartment, all was quiet, and they tiptoed about for fear of awakening the girls.

  45. She tiptoed down the hall, opened the outer door, and reached the elevator in safety.

  46. It is only that I hate debt, and--" Polly involuntarily tiptoed away, feeling strangely guilty at having overheard what was not intended for her ears.

  47. She listened at the foot of the stairs, and then tiptoed up.

  48. But as she tiptoed past him he opened his eyes and held out his hand to draw her to him.

  49. He crept quietly out of the flat, and tiptoed upstairs to the roof.

  50. She tiptoed into the room, and sat down on the floor, and looked at the back of the chair in utter distress.

  51. So Prudence Jane tiptoed out again, to await a more favorable moment.

  52. Very softly opening the door into the yard, I tiptoed across.

  53. And now he tiptoed forward to the door beneath which the light shone, and, getting upon his hands and knees, held his ear down where he could hear with more distinctness.

  54. They tiptoed out to the grounds, and, behind a hedge where they could not be observed from the house, talked.

  55. Then together they tiptoed into the other room and down a flight of rickety steps into the cellar.

  56. He tiptoed over to it and tried to open it.

  57. She tiptoed in on the surprised group with a laugh.

  58. Fritzie, after she was dressed, tiptoed in.

  59. It ran downhill like the pathway on a mountain side, and as he tiptoed softly down it he felt that by rights it ought to have led him clean out of the house into the heart of a great forest.

  60. Vezin tiptoed softly across the room and unlocked the door.

  61. A critic who wrote in terms of elliptical rhythms and tonal arabesques tiptoed out for a smoke.

  62. A certain petulance lent to her exceedingly well-bred diction quite a charm, and she was playful and adoring enough to pinch each cheek of her brother's as she tiptoed to kiss him.

  63. She tiptoed to the door, barefooted, locking it and thereby violating a rule of the institution.

  64. Duane and Doty occasionally tiptoed in to glance inquiry at the fanning attendant, and then tiptoed out.

  65. The steward shall be here at once, Miss Wren," said he, and tiptoed away.

  66. A sergeant, standing by the adjutant's desk, tiptoed out into the clerk's room and closed the door behind him, then set himself to listen.

  67. He slid his feet from the bed and tiptoed cautiously to a window and raised the shade.

  68. Quickly he tiptoed to the top and closed the sliding panel, well knowing that Starr's men would be unable to master the mechanism that controlled it.

  69. After listening in vain for sounds, he tiptoed out in the hallway, then down the main stairway.

  70. With noiseless tread The Phantom tiptoed in the direction whence the sounds were coming.

  71. Stealthily, as if playing Indian, they stepped out of the swing and tiptoed through the grass around the corner of the house.

  72. As they tiptoed out of the house into the wonderful stillness, the church clock struck five.

  73. He can't, anyhow,' Dan muttered, and tiptoed out of Panama Corner while the Archbishop patted and patted at the carved gates that always sprang open again beneath his hand.

  74. He tiptoed into the rear room and his people followed, tiptoeing also.

  75. He tiptoed to the iron door and opened it softly.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiptoed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.