Example sentences for: tread

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

  • Besides, Tim Russert added, casting Bush as a hothead would tread on McCain's pre-existing condition, namely his temper.

  • The doctrines survive in vegetarianism, with Jain monks carrying dusters to sweep insects away from where they tread and wearing a gauze veil over their mouth to avoid breathing in flies.

  • Most of the other candidates have tried to tread the middle ground: The Bush and Gore camps have said they will stay silent on the issue because it is a legal matter and up to the courts, not the executive branch.

  • 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?)

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


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