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How to use tippy-toe in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tippy-toe? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
We have to tippy-toe in and out of our houses because of the muck and dirt on it.
It's hard to tippy-toe around the subject when the subject opens the door, asks you in, gives you a drink, and agrees with everything you say.
They had to tippy-toe about for hours on end before leaping six feet into the air from a standing start.
Obviously a female in her shape and form, she was standing on one of the chairs on tippy-toe, leaning over the tabletop, a rag in her left paw.
The bar lost its urgent air, which Mr. Scotti says he will bring back with a tippy-toe restoration.
I'm not going to tippy-toe to please everybody.
Georgey gets so excited at mealtime that she stands tippy-toe.
Big-name chefs in top hotels normally stick to a formula: modern French cuisine, luxe ingredients, tippy-toe service – the international signifiers of the fine dining experience.
It's not that they tippy-toe around either.
Examples from Classical Literature
Especially when you walk it on tippy-toe, which must be extra-wearisome to a body on feet shaped like yours, Mr. Geen.
Stealthily across the grass, Flossy went butterflywards, on tippy-toe.
Hillbilly Galoot, 1960, absurdly balances on the floor on tippy-toe horns of pointed steel.
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