tiptoe

Object

• test: Integrity From behind, ask the patient to do a single foot tiptoe test on both sides.
• downstairs: One night she left her husband sound asleep, tiptoed downstairs and peeped through a crack of the door.
• round: Colin Robinson is at best tiptoeing round the awfulness of the corporate world.

Preposition: through

• tulip: Not really, more a tiptoe through the tulips!
• minefield: A life stripped bare: tiptoeing through the ethical minefield.

Modifying Another Word

• on: Why should a man walk on tiptoe down the alley?
• away: He has tiptoed away, allocating a derisory sum for reconstruction in Afghanistan, a country falling back into chaos.
• then: Oscar looked out carefully, then tiptoed into the hallway.
• n't: We need to be the party that does n't tiptoe around the issue.
• 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.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Well, there's no need to tiptoe around, treating the internet like a secret lover.
• out: The Gruffalo's Child was feeling brave So she tiptoed out of the gruffalo cave.
• up: Dixon opened the door very softly, and stole on tiptoe up to Margaret, sitting by the shaded window.
• over: Later that night, out of curiosity, Brother Leonard went back to the brewing room and tiptoed over to the barrel.

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:

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?