Object

• test: Integrity From behind, ask the patient to do a single foot tiptoe test on both sides.

Preposition: through

• tulip: Not really, more a tiptoe through the tulips!

Modifying Another Word

• then: Oscar looked out carefully, then tiptoed into the hallway.

• carefully: Determined to discover what lay behind, he tiptoed carefully across the attic floor.

• back: He turned to me with real anxiety in his eyes and tiptoed back to my bed so he wouldn't have to raise his voice.

• on: Why should a man walk on tiptoe down the alley?

• n't: We need to be the party that does n't tiptoe around the issue.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Well, there's no need to tiptoe around, treating the internet like a secret lover.

• up: Dixon opened the door very softly, and stole on tiptoe up to Margaret, sitting by the shaded window.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: We need to be the party that doesn't tiptoe around the issue.

• down: Autumn tiptoes down the narrow wooden corridor Making the faint squeak echo inside her.

Particle object: around_obj

• issue: We need to be the party that doesn't tiptoe around the issue.

Infinitive complement

• see: We had to stand on tiptoe to see you but it was worth the effort.

Preposition: in

• style: What wild creature had I met on my travels that tore along on tiptoe in that extraordinary style?