Tiptoeing

Glancing in at the big chair he saw Polly just tiptoeing from the room. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Malone wondered how best to announce himself, and regretfully gave up the idea of tiptoeing up to the girl, placing his hands over her eyes, kissing the back of her neck and crying: ❋ Laurence M. Janifer (1967)

HENDERSON: Yes, I mean that certainly seems like what she was kind of tiptoeing around. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the Giants, there's a little bit of pressure on Brandon Jacobs, who was criticized for "tiptoeing" last week by Tony Siragusa. ❋ Unknown (2009)

JARVIS: So it's a very strange kind of tiptoeing around Obama in this campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And I guess I'll have to say, how do you feel about that in terms of the kind of tiptoeing around the -- ❋ ITY National Archives (1998)

Greenstalk drifted closer, "tiptoeing" off the ceiling with her tendrils. ❋ Vinge, Vernor (1992)

Aquino Jr. and served as Corzaon Aquino's executive secretary when she was president, has annoyed President Aquino by saying he's running the government "like a student council" and accusing him of "tiptoeing" to China. ❋ Author Unknown (2010)

In other news, Brandon Jacobs had little to say about FOX sideline reporter Tony Siragusa, who said Jacobs was "tiptoeing" instead of running hard this season.

"tiptoeing" around the Ethical Considerations, Perhaps to their Peril ❋ Unknown (2010)

But if the Europeans keep tiptoeing around this situation, the unraveling of the European Project will unfold, with grave and negative ramifications geo-politically. ❋ Diane Francis (2011)

Summer mornings in Maine found Elwyn getting up before dawn, tiptoeing out of the cabin and down to the shore of Belgrade Lake, to canoe alone for miles, to bathe in the good cold water or to be ready to see or hear any wild thing that might turn up. ❋ Anthony Esolen (2011)

The commission in charge of the review plans in March or April to publish an "options paper" with a short list of the proposals, which bankers say could clear up enough of the uncertainty surrounding British banks that investors might start tiptoeing back into bank stocks. ❋ Sara Schaefer Mu (2011)

Since he had come back from Arizona, Macy had been tiptoeing around him like a fragile piece of glass. ❋ Julia London (2011)

I watched Patrick tiptoeing toward a gull, leaning forward, calling to it, trying to befriend it. ❋ Elizabeth Chandler (2011)