Sentences with phrase «tiptoe in»

You're standing tiptoe in a sea of change endeavoring to keep your nose above water.

Scarlet squares are held aloft on black oblongs, a balletic green triangle stands tiptoe in ultra-white space.

The authors tiptoe in these intimations; they do not stride.

A really helpful feature is a screen that glows - in - the - dark or lights up at night, so you can tiptoe in and check the temperature without waking them up.

She would wake him up when she tiptoed in so vert quietly to go to bed, because he was such a light sleeper.

A new year has tiptoed in.

My friend Isabella is even shorter than you (4» 11» in American measurements) and she is very fond of high heeled boots, she's basically tiptoeing in them.

Tackling the same corner with a slight lift on turn - in to get the weight transfer working gets the Gallardo up on tiptoes in a way the standard model couldn't manage.

Advocates of dollar - cost averaging claim it's a good risk - reduction tool because tiptoeing in a bit at a time reduces the chance that you'll put all your money into stocks just before the market slumps.

Tiptoeing in to say... it's less than 8 weeks until Christmas.

He tiptoes in risky situations and has to be picked up and carried sometimes.

Not exact matches

Meal kit mania may fade in a few years, and when it does, the newspapers and magazines will quietly tiptoe away from the business, just like they did with daily deals.

She has tiptoed into the public sphere, pushing her agenda in education as well as global conservation, nutrition and immigration policy.

Facebook is tiptoeing into translation of chat threads in Messenger, starting with English - Spanish convos in the US within Marketplace.

Even managers who allowed flexibility tiptoed up to it, with no formalized remote work polices in place.

She lives on tiptoe, looking for signs of renewal in the church, joyfully reporting every evidence of God's work in the world.

I kind of grinned at the sneaky goodness of God, the kind that tiptoes up behind you, because without a lot of fanfare, because in a rather haphazard and organic way, I have found my tribe.

Evan was imprisoned, brutalized and placed in solitary confinement, where he was forced to stand on tiptoe for nine hours each day.

But it seems the policy at present is to tiptoe around the elephant in the hope that it will go away.

«Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among men, and that is just what they did except there were so many of them that there was a fair amount of crowding and jockeying for position, with the result that one particular angel, a girl about nine years old who was smaller than most of them, ended up so far out on the fringes of things that not even by craning her neck and standing on tiptoe could she see what was going on.

I slowly tiptoed into the world of eating, and later, preparing meat, but it took a good while to find comfort in cooking foods so unfamiliar to me.

Wake up before the sun the next morning, tiptoe around the house so as not to wake our friends who were kind enough to let us crash in their spare room.

I noticed a small sign that said PICK YOUR OWN CHARD so I wandered through the entrance — into a little oasis in the middle of a residential neighborhood just south of the city — and tiptoed around, looking for someone to see if I could actually pick my own chard or if it was more of one of those I choose my own chard and you physically pick it for me kinda deals.

He gets a tiptoe down in bounds, keeping OSU alive and setting up the next play: an 18 - yard touchdown strike to Johnson.

Liverpool's ownership continues to tiptoe around the biggest issue at Anfield in what could be the most important league campaign in a long, long time.

Diggs» 61 - yard reception — in which he leaped, caught the ball, avoided a would - be tackler, spun quickly, and tiptoed down the sideline to the end zone — will be remembered for the rest of human history.

As I tiptoed into an office in the clubhouse, a secretary looked up and said, «Who are you?»

The very common alternative is you and mom tiptoeing through a minefield in sullen silence, and periodically blowing your tops.

I tiptoed inside, set the car seat down on the floor in AP's room, and drifted off for a solid three hours of sleep.

And maybe seal it by giving your child a kiss to hold — in the palm of his or her hand — as you tiptoe out of the room.

In fact, by getting you to tiptoe around him, he's teaching you to behave differently — he's training you to anticipate his angry outbursts.

«You might find you have a really busy family and the child spends a lot of time in a baby exerciser so she's learned to bounce around on her tiptoes.

I didn't tell her that eight in the morning was a little late for deep - sleeping farm animals, nor that there is absolutely no such thing as tiptoeing past a pasture full of twelve mouthy sheep (the matriarch, Emily is a mouthy one, and can rouse the rest of the crew into a chorus when she wants to).

I totally see your point that we should stop tiptoeing around and talk more frankly to our kids about what's in these processed foods that everyone's eating.

By his second birthday, he can kick a ball, stand on tiptoes, carry something in his hands while walking, and jump from a low step to the floor.

Every once in a while, Patsy stands on her tiptoes and comes up for air, her nose serving as a snorkel.

But for your teen with special needs, social networks like Facebook can be an easily supervisable way to tiptoe into the world of typical peers without having to actually deal with them in person.

In addition, if you wait in his room until he falls asleep and then tiptoe away, your child will wonder where you are if he wakes up during the nighIn addition, if you wait in his room until he falls asleep and then tiptoe away, your child will wonder where you are if he wakes up during the nighin his room until he falls asleep and then tiptoe away, your child will wonder where you are if he wakes up during the night.

She'll try to stand on her tiptoes and may have jumping in place (with two feet off the ground at the same time) down pat.

My reasoning behind this, is that I strictly made our first DD sleep in her room, in her crib, and we tiptoed around her naps.

If your child always tiptoes, it's possible that she has a physical problem, such as a short Achilles tendon, that prevents her from standing flat - footed and limits the range of motion in her ankle.

Then, I tiptoe into her room later in the evening when she's dreaming and fast asleep, and scatter the six pacifiers all around her crib.

Most parents around the world intuitively mimic the rocking, holding and shushing of the uterus, but in our culture, we are mistakenly taught to whisper and tiptoe around our babies, believing that they need a quiet and still environment... nothing could be further from the truth!

You've finally made it through «The Witching Hour,» rocked your baby to sleep for a half an hour, (which felt more like three hours) and at last deposited him in his crib, cranking the white noise machine up a notch before you tiptoe out the door.

«The families and students suffering from the heartbreak of gun violence deserve real leadership, not a White House that cravenly tiptoes around the NRA,» House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.

Running in a more conservative district, she's even tiptoed toward the right, confident that her large primary lead — the most recent public poll was a Time Warner - Siena College poll that put Teachout leading Yandik 53 - 23 — won't hurt her in the primary.

Tiptoe through the past contributions and present public contracts of Joe Pontoriero and Worth Construction in New York State and Connecticut.

Joe Connor, whose father, Frank Connor, was killed in the Fraunces Tavern bombing, said he was disgusted by the invitation extended to Lopez Rivera — as well as Mayor de Blasio's tiptoeing around the controversy.

While other Republicans tiptoe around the topic, Donald Trump knows exactly what we're up against in battling the Clinton political machine.

Or why, when she is standing on tiptoe on one leg in an arabesque — bent at the waist, with her other leg extended horizontally behind her — and her partner gives her a twist, she will do a rapid «pencil» turn if she straightens up and pulls her leg in.