How to Use tippy in a Sentence
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A tall seat hump and a taller foot hump make for a tippy ride.
—Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 28 July 2017
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The Cook Islands poke out the sea like the tippy tops of a mountain.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 May 2021
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An egg balanced on a broom on top of a flea’s tippy top hair!
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2014
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Like many in the Oral-B range, the charging base can be a little bit tippy.
—Samson McDougall, Health, 29 Mar. 2023
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We’re way past the low-hanging fruit, trying to build the tools and systems that will get us to the tippy-top of the tree.
—Ryan Bradley, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
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Challenge cards up the ante, like having to play on tippy-toed feet.
—Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 11 Nov. 2019
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The average plant leaf grows from the plant’s apexes, or the tippy-tops of its stem and branches.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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The tippy tops of those structures have been spotted from above the construction wall for some time.
—Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Dec. 2020
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Also, pro tip: hang your curtains at the tippy-top of your walls to make the ceilings seem higher.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 13 Apr. 2022
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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
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Come up to your tippy toes and squeeze your butt at full extension to complete one rep.
—Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 15 Jan. 2016
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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
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Tilting the pelvis backward and standing on tippy toes to create a thigh gap.
—Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 27 Sep. 2017
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In the fifth inning, Davis required getting on his tippy toes to snare a throw from Bregman.
—Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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One often sees whole fields of golden flowers in the springtime, the tippy tops of wild mustard.
—David Tanis, New York Times, 25 May 2017
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But the hotel’s gym, at the tippy-top of the 36th floor, gives enough height to see a cross-section of the city with glimpses of Central Park and even the Hudson River in the distance.
—Maria Teresa Hart, USA TODAY, 10 May 2017
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Stock household supplies such as paper goods at the tippy top, along with tempting junk food (out of sight, out of mind, right?).
—Jen Jones, Redbook, 22 Mar. 2017
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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
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My first thought, This guy definitely has short Achilles tendons and walks on his tippy toes, better swipe left.
—The Cut, 13 Aug. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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The tippy top is even in view from the 750-square-foot terrace, which is filled with plants and cushy seating — plus a sauna and Scandinavian-style cold plunge bath to briefly transport yourself a few thousand miles north.
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2022
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Pressed hard into corners, the GLE never feels unstable or tippy.
—Jake Lingeman, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2020
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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
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