How to Use tiptoe around in a Sentence

tiptoe around

verb
  • Our house is meant to be lived in, not tiptoed around.
    — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2026
  • At the same time, try not to be overly cautious or tiptoe around the facts of people’s lives.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
  • None of this means tiptoeing around your hydrangeas all summer, says Greenwald.
    — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 9 June 2026
  • So there's a lot of tiptoeing around what's acceptable, what's not, what is serving justice, and what's the right thing to do here.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, tech stock traders are tiptoeing around mouse traps, eager to get through June without losing an appendage.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • Taylor tiptoes around the topic a bit, careful to not overgeneralize.
    — Lindsey Underwood, Vanity Fair, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Once the pair return to Mayfair, Benedict and Sophie struggle to tiptoe around their attraction to each other.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Her insistence that Larry will return keeps her husband and surviving son in a constant limbo, tiptoeing around her feelings.
    — Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Instead of sticking the boot into military homophobia, the show initially seems determined to tiptoe around it.
    — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In their heart-to-heart about Hal’s pluses and minuses, Kate doesn’t obscure any facts about Hal or even tiptoe around his most infuriating qualities.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The chronic underperformer everyone tiptoes around.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Throughout the campaign, Burnham tiptoed around these faultlines, aligning his positions more closely with those of the working-class voters in Makerfield.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
  • Now European leaders, after tiptoeing around Trump for the past year, are openly discussing retaliatory tariffs.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Now European leaders, after tiptoeing around Trump for the past year, are openly discussing retaliatory tariffs.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Lambert clues us in quickly that Maya is suffering from anxiety and depression, and the way Noah tiptoes around her — showing support and concern but holding back as if by not making a big deal of it, the problem will go away — is quietly affecting.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In an August 2025 interview with The Wall Street Journal, Hines and Kennedy refused to comment on the sexting scandal directly, but presented a united front as Hines tiptoed around the subject.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025

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