Example sentences for: treading

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

  • You’ll see gaggles of geese and ducks waddling along the riverbanks, burdened donkeys treading steadfastly homeward, and oxen compliantly tilling the fields.

  • The film "wants to say something about the commodification of spirituality, but has no idea what" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). Treading ground previously trod by Being There , Network , and Forrest Gump , the screenplay doesn't give Murphy a chance to flex his comedic muscles, and the result is weak satire.

  • Athens is an international melting pot with people of many nationalities treading the marble steps of the Acropolis to gaze at the birthplace of Western civilization.

  • Each time I visit Oxford, I walk past the Bodleian Library, pass under the Bridge of Sighs, and turn down the narrow lane that leads to Oxford University's New College, treading the same path as the late venerable Reverend Doctor William Archibald Spooner.

  • Even as the Nasdaq has rallied strongly in the last couple of weeks, Microsoft's stock has been treading water.


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