“He was so small that his feet barely reached from one rung of the ladder to the next.”

“Though the level of tokenism is still apparent, it is at the rung of placation that the citizens begin to have some degree of influence.”

“The discomfiture of their comrades and the sound of the watchman's oak rung had been too much for them.”

“Latham has just added a few more rungs to his ladder of political opportunity.”

“He stood, his foot on the lower rungs of a ladder that led to the upper shelves, with his weight propped on his elevated knee.”

“The metal rungs creaked and groaned as she put her weight on them, but held firm against the stone wall.”