treading

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Phrases

• tread the boards
• tread water
• fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• step (tread) on one's toes

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Examples

• Every bottle of water, every shell, every replacement tank tread had to be shipped from continental Europe across the Mediterranean to North Africa.

• Tires must be inflated properly, and a good tread depth will help with traction on wet roads.

• The pattern of that tread will also be designed to grip loose surfaces, while evacuating water, mud, small rocks, and snow as efficiently as possible.

• To merit this stamp, a two-dimensional analysis of a tire’s tread pattern must demonstrate that at least 25 percent of the tread’s surface area is made up of grooves.

• Bergeson says that Toyo uses different compound materials for the two categories of tires, as well as different tread designs.

• We feel their strangeness when we read their words—they lived on a plane where few dare to tread.

• It really set the tone for the second half of Season 5, ending with that great “tread lightly” encounter between Hank and Walt.

• The interim, however, is ours, and here we must tread carefully.

• The moral philosopher Michael Sandel observed, “Fundamentalists rush in where liberals fear to tread.”

• She says that Italy must tread carefully not to allow this to happen.

• Their heads might have been turned upside-down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether.

• You know MacRae, Lyn; it's mighty poor business for any man to tread on his toes, much less go walking rough-shod all over him.

• At last, some one came, a man, and his firm tread of boot-shod feet betokened a soldier.

• He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.