tiptoe
noun
the tip or end of a toe.
have tiptoed
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present perfectof tiptoe.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“I want to admit to the lips, but people are so quick to judge me on everything ... So I might have tiptoed around the truth, but I didn’t lie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
You have tiptoed back into the world and seem to be doing well.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2021
Inevitably “The Silence”, simply for arriving second, will be perceived to have tiptoed in the footsteps of “A Quiet Place”.
From Economist ● May 28, 2018
The film opens in the cemetery, and tourists from as far away as Japan have tiptoed between the headstones over the decades to take photos and whisper the film’s most famous line.
From Washington Times ● May 12, 2018
I suppose we could have just as easily have tiptoed downstairs and out the back door, but it would have spoiled the romance of it all.
From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond
