Example Sentences

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Though something like 94% of the people about to see must know the fate of Harry, his steadfast friends and his purported enemies, I am tiptoeing and sidestepping as I describe certain scenes.

From Time • Jul. 10, 2011

Just when I am tiptoeing on the heights of joy because I am going home, I am brought to common earth with a thud by the miserable thought that I must leave Boggley.

From Olivia in India by Douglas, O.