Example sentences for: tread

How can you use “tread” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "From the dark opening of the worn insides of the shoes the toilsome tread of the worker stares forth.

  • He had been changing a flat, a roofing nail Pried from the tread with the edge of a dime, Rolling the spare when he first heard the river On the other side of the road when his breathing slowed.

  • A similar tread was seen with AFA, although this did not reach statistical significance.

  • Likewise with Myanmar, the name now used-- at least in the non-U.S.-English-speaking world--for what used to be called Burma . The official name of the country in Burmese has, since independence from Britain, been Pyidaungsu Socialist Thammada Myanma Naingngandaw , so Myanmar, it seems, is simply Burmese for Burma . This is the same phenomenon as Côte d'Ivoire . But the current Myanmarese (do I venture where angels fear to tread by coining the adjective?)

  • Though fascinating, the story does have a defect common to much press poll reporting--nowhere before the story's "jump" to the inside (where, it is well known, a lot of readers never tread) does the LAT reveal how large the sample is.


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