How to Use tippy in a Sentence

tippy

adjective
  • An egg balanced on a broom on top of a flea’s tippy top hair!
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2014
  • Come up to your tippy toes and squeeze your butt at full extension to complete one rep.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 15 Jan. 2016
  • The Cook Islands poke out the sea like the tippy tops of a mountain.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 May 2021
  • Tilting the pelvis backward and standing on tippy toes to create a thigh gap.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The tippy tops of those structures have been spotted from above the construction wall for some time.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Like many in the Oral-B range, the charging base can be a little bit tippy.
    — Samson McDougall, Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The average plant leaf grows from the plant’s apexes, or the tippy-tops of its stem and branches.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Casting and reeling in a fish from a canoe can take some practice as well, since the boats tend to be tippy.
    — Outside Online, 17 June 2020
  • These Timberwolves look primed to skip a few rungs on the ladder and reach the tippy top via one giant leap.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a lot of competition and not many open slots at the tippy-top of the food chain Walsh has been traversing.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In the fifth inning, Davis required getting on his tippy toes to snare a throw from Bregman.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The retiree on the park bench with the bag of stale crumbs is a sure bet; following around a child with a tippy ice cream cone is more of a high-stakes gamble.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2014
  • Simon Spurr stood on his tippy toes to fetch a shoe box from a wardrobe in his West Village apartment.
    — Joshua David Stein, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2017
  • That has since changed, of course, and some women put a trip to their colorist at the tippy-top of their post-lockdown To-Do lists.
    — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Yet even with the economy standing on tippy toes, prices and wages are climbing a lot more slowly than anyone has expected.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • My first thought, This guy definitely has short Achilles tendons and walks on his tippy toes, better swipe left.
    — The Cut, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The tippy-top of great players elevate those around them, and Luka’s been able to do that here in this series for the Mavs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • The drive off the bat of first baseman Ryan Mountcastle struck 13 feet high, onto the tippy top of the green padding.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2022
  • Pressed hard into corners, the GLE never feels unstable or tippy.
    — Jake Lingeman, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The second level holds three additional bedrooms, and a smoking room with its own private terrace is nestled into the tippy top of the tower.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Plus, its unique design is incredibly easy to get in and out of, saving you the hassle of jumping off the side of your pool, trying to land right-side-up on a tippy inflatable.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • Some people put pesticide around their yards, but Nair doesn’t recommend it because scorpions can sense the chemicals and may even go on their tippy toes to avoid them.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
  • At the tippy top of the market is a $13 million glass and stone estate that appears to be the most expensive home in Boulder County.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The layout also creates a low center of gravity, which keeps the ID4 from feeling tippy in fast turns and promotes good handling.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The first was an 11-yarder to Durham Smythe, who did his best ballerina impersonation to make the catch on his tippy toes to keep both feet in bounds and move the chains.
    — Laken Litman, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
  • What makes this prospect of diagnostic inflation so unsettling is that, from some distance, the development looks like a service to those in pain, a panacea from the tippy top of the system.
    — John Ericson, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2014
  • Over the next two decades, Leger’s builds, ranging from 12 to 40 feet, attracted middle-class day boaters who wanted something that was less tippy on seas than a monohull.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Coming in from the tippy-top of their profession are celebrated chef Daniel Humm and award-winning designer Gabriela Hearst.
    — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
  • But the story, like the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, hints at the reality of the dense connections that exist at the very tippy-top of the economic pyramid.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2020
  • While crazy capable, the E 63 S admittedly felt a bit tippy in the corners, no doubt the by-product of the vehicle’s more upright nature.
    — Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2023

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