Example Sentences
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“I swanny to God, I seen one a-them cats jump up on Loma’s kitchen stove last night! Tiptoed across thet red-hot stove on his dang claws and et right out of the pot!”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Tiptoed straight into the melon patch, all viny, with melons ripe for the picking.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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The minions of Prince Drowsihead, The wood-perfumes, with sleepy tread, Tiptoed around my ferny bed: And far away I heard report Of one who dimly rode to Court, The Faery Princess, Eve-Amort.
From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius