tiptoe
noun
the tip or end of a toe.
are tiptoeing
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present progressiveof tiptoe.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Andrew McCarthy at the National Review, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Barr, and other non-Lego-character-based attorneys are tiptoeing away from that kind of analysis with respect to the former president.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2023
And while we are tiptoeing about with such solicitude for their feelings, did anybody really care about Izzy Tichenor’s feelings?
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
The three big public universities in Arizona — University of Arizona, Arizona State and Northern Arizona University — are tiptoeing around the ban on masks and requiring them in class.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
Farmers like Strohfus are tiptoeing into the hemp market, planting fields in Woodbury, Afton, Dakota County and across the state.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2018
It feels to Marie-Laure as if they have wound these past four days toward the center of a bewildering maze, and now they are tiptoeing past the pickets of some final interior cell.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
