There was hardly a sound--that is, of course, except that made by four figures tiptoeing around through the halls and different rooms.
Again came the shuffling noise made by tiptoeing feet on the front stairs.
Tiptoeing down a corridor opening from the cloister, she came to a massive oaken door.
Tiptoeing down a long, damp-smelling corridor, she passed a window.
A child, even this one, was a sensitive creature whom she, an adult, needed to emphasize certain points to while tiptoeing away from others.
But, she argued in solitary inward dialogues within herself, which she found to be the most engaging form of companionship, that did not necessarily mean that her quiet tiptoeing prevarications were lies.
Tiptoeing to the door, Jewel closed it and began to inspect her new apartment.
Jewel, her eyes fixed on the open back door of her room, felt a leap of the heart as Zeke, fine in his handsome livery, came blushing and tiptoeing into the room.
On account of the growth of low bushes, we could not see the rhino, but in silence we watched Kearton tiptoeing farther and farther ahead toward the spot where the Colonel had said the beast was lying down.
A little sigh followed, and then he was gone, tiptoeing cautiously.
She saw the man lying in a shaft of the sunset, and started back, then, tiptoeing past, bent forward slightly to examine his face.
I was just crawling through the window of a drug store when here comes a chap tiptoeing through the alley flashing a dark lantern, and I bolted for the tall timber as hard as I could sprint.
The thief had become more cautious and was tiptoeing up the uncarpeted treads of the stair, still sending occasionally a bar of light ahead.
Come in, Freddie," he said in a low voice, tiptoeing back to his chair.
What a childish fancy this is of humanity's, tiptoeingand whispering in the presence of death, as if one by an incautious word or a hasty step might wake the sleeper from such deep repose!
Tiptoeing up a stairway, he paused a moment to listen at a door, then entered.
Tiptoeing from the room, the aide went to the kitchen door and said to the publican, "Order one of the dragoons to make ready Captain Mobray's horse, as he wishes to ride back to Philadelphia.
Getting no reply, he opened it, and tiptoeinghastily to the dressing-stand, he tucked the packet under the powder-box.
In a flash he had grasped the full significance of this unexpected fact, and wastiptoeing across to the door.
I imagine him, then, tiptoeing to the door of the library and bending to listen, every nerve astretch.
He was so contrite that, tiptoeing to his own room, he told poor faithful Edith her voice was too loud: "You disturb Eleanor.
Nor the moment when Mr. Templeton, tiptoeing in in order not to interrupt the conference that was going on, whispered that he'd got hold of Michael by telephone and that he'd be here in a short while.
Tiptoeing across the bedroom floor, she noiselessly unfastened the door, and silently reached Gaston's side.
Tiptoeing across the living room, Joyce took her stand by the table and called timidly, expectantly and awesomely: "Come.
There would be dire confusion for a few minutes until the flock settled in another thicket, and then the patter of pads tiptoeing away told that the fox was also hunting that way that night.
I could hardly feel the incredibly thin lath of his body, lost within the thick stuff, but his growl had depth and substance: Confounded dump ship with a craven, tiptoeing crowd.
Afraid to be any longer in the dark, Ralph jumped out of bed and lit the candle, and, as he did so, he distinctly heard footsteps move hurriedly away from the door and go stealthily tiptoeing down the passage.
About two hours later Ralph awoke with a violent start to hear distinct sounds of footsteps tiptoeing their way softly along the passage outside towards their room door.
Tiptoeing down the room without the least sound, she climbed upon her berth, which was made up for the night.
To her left there sounded ever more plainly the pit-pat of tiptoeing feet.
The sheer frock she hung up in a closet, covering it with a shroud of tissue paper, wadding her daughter's none-too-carefully flung stockings into her shoes and tiptoeing to place them beside the davenport.
He dressed silently, but she could hear him tiptoeing about, and finally lay with her hands clenched against the gargling noises that came through the closed door of the bathroom.
She did, tiptoeingand fighting down the sense of sickness.
When he opened his eyes, about two hours later, he found Parmet tiptoeing awkwardly up and down the room, his shadow a gigantic crab on the wall.
Very often I discovered her tiptoeing in or standing at a distance and watching me admiringly.
The latter had come tiptoeing into the dormitory one night long after the other girls were fast asleep, and without undressing threw herself on the vacant cot next to mine.
WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.
He rose and stood a moment clutching the window-sill, to give him a sense of reality again; then began tiptoeing towards the door.
With rather a choky feeling he closed the door and went tiptoeing upstairs.
She grasped at the snout of the instrument, tiptoeing up to it.
With a final pat to the rug across Mae Munroe's feet she scooped the litter of empty bottles under one arm and hurried out smiling and closing the door softly behind her and tiptoeing down the hallway to the kitchen.
Her voice slipped up and away for the moment, and she crammed her lacy fribble of a handkerchief tight against her lips, tiptoeing closer to the transmitter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiptoeing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crawl; crawling; creep; creeping; padding; reptile; scramble; sneaking; stealing; tiptoe
