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Sentence Examples They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the parking-lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale. The mobile operators are also treading uncertain ground where business users are concerned. All the world may well be a stage, but you still expect to find newspaper theatre critics in the stalls rather than treading the boards. The soldiers, treading on Rowdon's bare feet, forced him from the inn and into the frozen night. But it's very difficult on Carnac Island to move more than three feet without treading on a seagull chick. Race, class, culture and geographic divides are bridged by both laughter and fearless treading on touchy subjects. Now, even more elderly, and white-haired, he can still be seen vigorously treading the highways and byways of the Dales. The young bachelor was treading on thin ice after showing up two and a half hours late. The spine incorporates Main and Fox streets, where pedestrians treading on the colourful paved streets have right of way. They are treading a fine line, risking bookings over mundane issues like throw-ins. I certainly wouldn't have picked her for the job, and even thought her marked for demotion or treading water. Who would eat something that has spent its life treading water around sewage outlets? Many torch-bearers of human rights and social activists paid the price of fearlessly treading the path of political justice with their lives. But as matters stand, Scotland are in limbo, consigned to treading a tightrope with players balancing jobs and sport. Less than 30 seconds later, Maready was treading water as she watched the red beacon light of her tail rudder spiral deeper into the dark abyss. As this newspaper does its daily job, treading between different interest groups, our main concern is to freely report what happens on our patch. Alito was treading carefully to avoid the same quicksand that dragged Miers down. You have to keep your wits about you if you want to avoid clumsily treading in someone's hard work. How long can we keep treading cultural water before we start repeating ourselves? At that stage I still wanted to be an actor, to be front of house and treading the boards. Show More Sentences After treading the boards, he turned his hand to writing and script editing, and this was the career which made his name. Numerous stints treading the boards with his local drama group have inspired him to try his hand as a playwright. A theatre company whose actors have been treading the boards for 20 years in Swindon has received a big cash boost. Nowadays it would seem to be treading on dangerous ground, especially for an innocent victim. A talented actress who has only been treading the boards for a year could be picked to join the cast of a highly-acclaimed West End musical. You are still just treading water, gulping brine into your empty heart and lungs. It is no wonder that the bosses of small companies are wary of treading the stock market path. We are treading water but have increased recruits by a very small percentage. Institutions are treading cautiously, even as they up the ante by courting hedge funds more assiduously. The seemingly unending silence was broken by the soft treading of sneakers on soil. They are not threatened with relegation yet, but if they do not alter their disappointing curve they could be treading that line before long. What about all those generations of wizened peasants treading the grapes and passing on their age-old knowledge of the terroir? From her home in Cairns, Australia, she was stunned to find her name double was treading in her footsteps 30 years on. They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale. James bobbed up first, treading water and grasping for a sizable slab of lumber. Russell should be a permanent fixture in the top 25 of the Order of Merit, but he is treading water. Running against the wind was like treading water, running with the wind was like bowling along under sail. Yet Widayanto has succeeded in treading the fine line between his pure art creations and his more commercial products. He had been swimming and had started treading water when he started getting into difficulties. We stooged around for a while, treading air, then fired the burner, to give us a few hours of heat. Show More Sentences Her head popped up from under the water and she laughed, treading water as he walked through the waves out to her. She emerged from her dive and started treading water as she turned herself around to look at the room. After leaving college, Pegg headed to Bristol University with notions of treading the boards. I tried to catch my breath, maniacally treading water like a child learning how to swim. He didn't give the mess a second glance, and wandered off, treading crushed peanuts underfoot. Mainstream commercial radio has learned to walk that plank, treading a fine line between camaraderie and controversy. You have to forge along, carefully treading a new way, trusting that your sense of direction has you going toward the right destination. So when you see the elites floating away in their yachts while you're barely treading water, before you get angry, take a moment to feel their pain. I'm very much treading in her footsteps, because she was one of the first women in this country to climb in the Himalayas and was part of the 1929 expedition to Nepal. The Dead C have been treading the same water since their inception in 1987 and their leaden, layered guitar-soaked dirges just feel tired up against the vibrancy of Konono. She's treading the Merzouga dunes with needles in her bag, in case a fellow competitor should need treatment. When the rotary hoe is drawn backward, it gives a treading action that crushes clods and pulverizes stalks. A solitary figure walks slowly, treading the edge where grass meets dust. There is a touch of draft horse about her battle-mount, which seems almost to be treading the observer underfoot. I must say, if you'll forgive me, that I'm a little concerned that this committee is treading on dangerous ground. Morocco is treading carefully and is determined to keep control of the liberalisation process. In our daily life, we can't even walk down the garden path without treading on numerous tiny insects. They could scarcely have realised it at the time, but the 12-year-old schoolboy and his father were treading the same path as hunters armed with lethal firearms. To be clear, I was not treading anywhere near the even more incomprehensible realm of relationship definition. On the 15th of October 1993 I was treading on Cuban ground in the middle of a power cut and a tremendous storm. Show More Sentences But Stravinsky was – like his great contemporary Picasso – a restless, protean genius, incapable of treading water. In this world he can choose between treading on the toes of others or not being trodden upon. For anyone with enough energy finish off the evening with a cosy get together at the barbecue evening at the water treading facility in Briedel. For example, wearing gloves can prevent chafing and blistering, and wearing footwear with the proper treading can prevent slips and falls. There was a general attitude of people treading their own path and pursing their own ends. The thing we need to remember in all of this debate today is that we are treading on provincial jurisdiction. It's like an actor who still gets stage-fright every time, even after many years of treading the boards. I hope they help illustrate and amplify my point that we are treading down a very slippery slope. Travel from Hotham to Mount Feathertop, treading above the treeline on the dramatic Razorback Ridge. He was walking, treading the waves under his feet like snarling wild creatures. We are strongly driven by our firm commitment to expand this position further, and to keep treading new paths in the future. I'm already treading on thin ice because of my out-spokenness. A rare silver arctic fox, a tough breed used to treading the icy wastes of Alaska and Canada, has been given a new home and a warm welcome at Selby Animal Sanctuary. When I resurfaced, Jordan was treading water next to me with a huge grin. The couple will raise extra cash by taking on jobs such as treading grapes in Spain, busking in Barcelona, and stripping off for a life class in Paris. It is the perfect blend of comedy and drama, carefully treading the fine line between sentimentality and humour so that it never becomes too schmaltzy or too dreary. At this stage, however, we are still largely treading on terra incognita. Aspiring young thespians from Listowel and its hinterland will be treading the boards of St John's Theatre and Arts Centre this Christmas holiday season. We drifted past a pair of mergansers, treading water in a streamside eddy. And so she did, treading gingerly into the deep carpet at first. Show More Sentences You're right, though, I am treading a rather thin line here. Crushing was traditionally done by foot, by treading grapes thinly spread on a crushing floor slanted towards a drain and bounded by low walls to prevent the loss of juice. We were treading water in a large water basin in a generator room. Moving to Los Angeles when he was 24, Freeman soon after found his spiritual home in New York, treading the boards in off-off-Broadway productions for the next three decades. He was absolutely right, although illiterately put, the second you give up any information, you're treading dangerously close to a 5th amendment concession. The man who concludes that he has succeeded in reducing the problem of man-management to a few simple rules is treading on dangerous and slippery ground. The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours. Be careful when treading around the limestone cliff tops. At the Times, Gove rose without treading on toes. But demigod Dave aside, the makers of the show are treading a thin line between TV production and perving. They sweep the ground in front of their feet to avoid treading on ants. During interludes, the women playfully mime vignettes reflecting life in a farm or fishing village, including treading on roof tiles, unrolling a mat, catching a mouse or tying herrings. After a day of treading water on almost all issues, delegates became visibly nervous as the deadline to report to plenary on Friday was almost upon them. With only the thinnest pen line – a tiny widening of the eye pupil, a downturned eyebrow or the sole of a foot treading charily through snow – she conveys their fear. We shall, however, be treading new paths, and we shall have new resources. Are there many ordinary New Brunswickers who are barely treading water in the new century, or has hope been restored in a province that was badly hit by the last North American recession? At best, we are treading water in a marginally sinking sort of way. While Jürgen Klopp has transformed BVB into one of the most admired clubs in Europe since 2008, Schalke have been treading water furiously with six different coaches in charge. Instead, New Brunswick was a place where far too many families were treading water in a provincial economy illequipped to offer much in the form of a life jacket. Republicans say Mr. Kerry might be treading on dangerous ground. Show More Sentences They are treading on some dangerous ground. The water temperature and the additional physical exertion from treading water without support of the life vest increased the rate of body temperature loss, which probably expedited the onset of hypothermia. They climbed up the ladder, and he mounted shikar fashion, treading first on the sharp edge of the heel and then into the looped-up tail. With such massive sums at stake on one hand and the health and well-being of millions on the other, treading the path ahead will require the same courage from campaigners as that shown on the infant feeding issue. The wheels could be either turned by the flow of water, men treading on its outside or by animals by means of a sakia gear. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism. I do feel, however, that in talking lightheartedly of making rearing, pulling or nappy horses into useful members of equine society I am treading on very dangerous ground. Just as e Hobbit didn't require three lms and The Twilight series was pushing it with ve, this second movie in the Divergent series feels as if it's treading water. Just as The Hobbit didn't require three films and the Twilight series was pushing it with five, this second movie in the Divergent series feels as if it's treading water. Examples from Classical Literature And, for the same reason, he avoided treading on freshly excavated earth before the holes of a rabbit warren. Poverty, treading closely at her heels for a lifetime, has come up with her at last. The large and well-padded foot of this creature is well adapted for treading a surface unsoftened by vegetation. He was treading in the steps of other, and abler men, who had gone before him. He continued on down the alameda, his head in the air, his feet treading on springs. Could I think of treading in the boots of a blackleg, albeit they never were his own? Onward they went, leaning inward, treading slowly, and shot was sleeted at them from the windows. In the Plutarchian method there was ever a snare, and I have come near treading in it. Certainly, as if treading on dangerous ground, Sidney avoided it. For around the corner had come two enormous savage beasts, treading so lightly that they were upon him before he was aware of their presence. Virginia walked in it, leaning on her mother's arm and treading the dead vine leaves. Your house is so full of these little plagues, now, that a body can't set down their foot without treading on 'em. They pop up their heads when disturbed by people treading on their houses. All the belligerents seem to be treading on the toes of Greece. George came to the surface some yards from the overturned boat, and, looking round for Mr Mifflin, discovered that great thinker treading water a few feet away. There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn. There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of treading? Words that rhyme with treading What is the plural of treading? What is the adjective for treading? What is the noun for treading? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words treader treaded tread treacly treacle treachery Treading treading water treadle treadmill treads tread water 8-letter Words Starting With t tr tre trea tread treadi treadin