How To Use Tread In A Sentence

The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
She works days as a chambermaid at a local hotel and at night lies awake fearing the sound of his tread.
Your daughter may indeed welcome your new friend but tread carefully. The Sun
The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
Don't tread ash into the carpet!

As an author of a romantic comedy myself, I do understand that it is difficult to make the genre seem fresh after many miserable retreads.
When I resurfaced, Jordan was treading water next to me with a huge grin.
I'd like to escape the office treadmill.
While he pours her feelings out, she treads very carefully and doesn't make the reader feel as though they are crashing into her personal life or snooping into her diary.
Though it crush its victims to the earth; and tread them into the dust; and brutify them by every possible invention; it cannot totally extinguish the spirit of manhood within them. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
He dipped his fingers in water, spun the bowls using a foot treadle and then played them almost like a piano.
This left him treading a narrow path along which private control and economic incentives might be preserved and yet society could obtain its full due by the complete expropriation of Ricardian rent.
Method: Treadmill exercise test was used by Bruce protocol.
Dead breathe I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead.
In dealing with the Soviet Union, in trying to analyze its objectives and capabilities, we continue to tread, as George Kennan wrote in his diary in 1950, “in the unfirm substance of the imponderables.” Interpretations of American History
Don Treadwell, what goes through his mind when that call crackles across the headset. The Seattle Times
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to tread on your foot.
There ,my son, is love. The love that makes all things beautiful. Yes, and breaths divinity into the very dust you tread.
The messenger's purposeful tread down the short avenue followed; then the noisy jangling of the bell. Scottish Voices 1745-1960
The interaction between wheel and rail results in the severe damage of the wheel tread, which is a problem that has not been resolved yet.
The stringer connects the level of the deck to the grade, for the installation of stair risers and treads.
Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
In addition, she changed the exercise equipment in the club bringing in treadmills, recumbent bikes and ellipticals that were more comfortable for the women, most of whom were new to exercising.
The newly hewn steps were too narrow to tread in comfort.
We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread. Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
The other result was that Bob became skilled at hand setting lines of display type, locking up printing formes and hand feeding both treadle and motorised presses.
A host of countermeasures have been devised and a few tried, such as exercise bikes and treadmills to which crew members are strapped.
Participants are instructed in the ‘correct’ ways to engage with people of other cultural groups and how to tread carefully around their different values.
We could almost hear the cadenced tread of feet.
The whole book has the feel of being a retread of issues that have already been quite well publicised.
Show your manners!" called Emil; and the boys pranced up to the ladies, old and young; with polite invitations to "tread the mazy," as dear Dick Little Men
At last she heard the cautious, stuffless tread of his rubber-soled shoes shuffling along the hall. The Lodger
I could either tread water until I was promoted, which looked to be a few years away, or I could change what I was doing.
There are no painted signs to repel native beachcombers and yet it seems the indigenous people know instinctively where to tread, where not to go.
The stair treads were covered with rubber to prevent slipping.
Forget spending hours on a treadmill: aerobic exercises such as these have been found to be ineffective for weight loss. Times, Sunday Times
She followed behind him, treading lightly on the ground.
They rank neither with mortals nor with immortals: long indeed do they live, eating heavenly food and treading the lovely dance among the immortals, and with them the Sileni and the sharp-eyed Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
He began to pace slightly, his familiar heavy tread thudding in my ears as if he were marching in my head, crushing with his boots my own thoughts and dreams.
A highlight will be British Pop artist Allen Jones's "Soft Tread" (1966-1967), a colorful painting giving a profile view of a woman's feet, legs and bottom erotically gartered with laced hosiery and impossibly-high stilettos. Selling Sex at Auction
DON'T use the treadmill or cross trainer. The Sun
The mobile operators are also treading uncertain ground where business users are concerned.
The application of the homogenizer A78 in the tread compound of industrial tire was experimentally investigated.
Their art treads a perilous tightrope and I think they've just fallen off.
While original gangstas like NWA presented graphic dispatches from LA gang turf where few reporters were brave enough to tread, he has been sold as a GI Joe doll with real bullet holes.
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A wolf spider treads perilously on the rim of a South American pitcher plant, perhaps looking to prey on insects drawn to the plant's strong nectar scent.
Treadmills are still the most popular type of equipment sold, but a growing number of elliptical motion trainers are attracting exercisers seeking a low-impact workout.
The treadle pump is easy to build from bamboo or other wood and 2 metal cylinders with pistons.
Wrestlers wash their faces, mouths and armpits before entering the dohyo (ring), on whose sacred sand neither shoes nor women may tread. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Panzer Elite AT Halftrack Treadbreaker ability cost increased from 25 munitions to 40 munitions.
They were not long in coming, and the quick light step of Mel was followed by the slow tread of Bridget.
A common design for stair treads provides a groove in the under surface, placed somewhat back from the rounded forward edge.
However, we have sold over 100,000 of these retreads in Australia over the last several years.
Once again I was thwarted in my attempt to understand how to tune in to the audio on the bank of TVs mounted above the treadmills.
If you drive down the road and the tread is worn, when you hit a puddle of water, the car can aquaplane. Club grooves limitation sought
The sewing machine was still set up, the old-fashioned treadle kind her mother preferred. FAMILY PICTURES
Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
You had to tread carefully with all river men, they were a bristly lot. COFFIN ON THE WATER
The story is mostly a retread of clichéd material and does not offer any new or significant plot developments.
The reality is that left to their own devices, most businesses that emit pollution will follow the money, even if that means treading punitively on the environment underfoot. Edward Flattau: Environmental Masochism
In all the houses, suspended straight-flight stairs have treads and risers made of continuous sheets of folded steel with flat steel stringers.
While a person is feeling the tread, the entire tire should also be inspected for such safety-related damage as cuts, cracks, blisters, or bulges.
He unwarily treads upon a viper asleep just before his feet.
But United pay his weekly wages so Keane is careful not to tread on the precious egos of anybody still at the club.
This path treads a thin line, as history should remind us, between economic nationalism and xenophobia. Times, Sunday Times
How long can we keep treading cultural water before we start repeating ourselves?
Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
Those treading the path must feel their efforts may be rewarded. Times, Sunday Times
It's interesting to see the different spins the TV spots give the movie, but they basically retread the same footage.
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Most of these "Pulp Fiction" retreads are made by chronically uncool asshats who want to make up for all the wedgies they got in high school.
Those treading the path must feel their efforts may be rewarded. Times, Sunday Times
Beneath the surface of small-town serenity lies a dark domain where innocents dare not tread and unpredictability is the norm.
This treadmill workout is a fartlek workout that will not only help improve your speed, but also help prevent boredom on the treadmill.
The real problem is that the rhetoric currently focused on the band either treads water too obviously or overreaches in apparent hipness.
Thin tread causes the tire to hydroplane - riding up on a film of water and losing contact with the pavement, similar to driving on ice.
Most of them have risen to the top from the shop floor by treading on anybody who got in their way and by their exploitation of the workers. GOODBYE CURATE
So, rapid acceleration and braking along with enthusiastic cornering will all scrub more rubber from the tread than unhurried progress. Times, Sunday Times
the heavy tread of tired troops
He was a big man, a couple of inches taller than Malone, and though he had never been light-footed, his tread now was heavy. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
He heard from his prison the bridge re-echo with the tread of horses, and would ask of his jailer respecting those who were arriving, whether they might be his judges, or those desirous of witnessing his punishment. Anne of Geierstein
Immediately, we tread on controversial ground.
For exercise, each subject walked on a treadmill at a rate sufficient to achieve a minute ventilation that was approximately 3 times his or her resting rate.
Asked if he now stood by his comments, he replied: I have to tread a very fine line, but I don't go back on my word with anybody.
I almost wished we could use the defunct treadles because every time I turned my machine own it ran away with me.
Ask, O my lord, thy want," quoth the servitor, and quoth the other: "I demand of thee a carpet of the primest brocade all gold-inwrought which, when unrolled and outstretched, shall extend hence to the Sultan's palace, in order that the Lady Badr al-Budur may, when coming hither, pace upon it and not tread common earth. Tehran Winter
I had a similar problem with my cat when I was revarnishing my stair treads.
He watches carefully where he treads so as to avoid some of the bigger holes and gaps between the half-rotten floorboards.
And what am I but a poor, wasted, wan-thriven tree, dug up by the roots, and flung out to waste in the highway, that man and beast may tread it under foot? The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.
But the retired factory worker used a treadmill and lifted weights. The Sun
It was in a way a kind of dance, each intent on her own orbit while treading an identical measure. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
I have a pair that I've been wearing for eight years - the soles are somewhat worn down but they have at least another couple of years to go before the tread disappears.
We rely on the MoT tester to tell us when the tread is low and then moan about the cost of replacements. Times, Sunday Times
Those sentenced to hard labour found themselves pounding the treadwheel and even for those with lighter sentences the daily diet was restricted to limited rations of bread, meat, potatoes, soup and oatmeal gruel.
I try to tread a not-middle line between following the pure dictates of cold logic which would involve going to the gym as well as not being in any political party and the kind of obsequious loyalty and jam-tomorrow logic you see in members of the other two parties. What did Evan Harris actually say?
Within four weeks, his team developed an alternative to the traditional cubicle - workstations that combine a computer, desk and treadmill into one unit.
I'm not using the treadmill right now while allowing a hurt foot to heal completely.
A few weeks ago, in an effort to cut my 2.5-mile treadmill run to under 30 minutes, I popped in "Vision Quest," the 1985 film about a high-school wrestler who comes of age while pursuing a single-minded obsession to get on the mat with the state's chiseled-from-stone champion grappler. Don't You Forget About Them
Patients attend the classes twice a week for six weeks doing activities ranging from arm exercises to using a treadmill.
We should tread this unforgiving ground with great care. Times, Sunday Times
They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale.
The skipper treads water as a Navy diver waits for a line to be thrown from the Oryx helicopter.
Her sewing machine had a "treadle" and our TV was a 5 "black and white with fuzzy images. Propeller Most Popular Stories
Some of the plot contrivances evoke memories of his character in The Truman Show, but the actor avoids the temptation to merely present a retread, turning in arguably his finest portrayal to date.
Gardener could have easily become a tired spy movie retread, but director Meirelles gives it a major push above the conventions of the genre.
It was an informal chat and we were told that some people are able for the slagging better then others and to tread lightly.
Meanwhile, traditional Range Rover cues are transmuted into styling gold: The blacked-out rocker panels and lower bumper clips, the clamshell hood with a cutline running from the narrow LED headlamps to a pectoral hood vent, the integrated front and rear treadplates, the integrated running boards, the defined wheel arches. Evoque: A Range Rover for a Smaller Era
He said the current consultation appeared to be retreading old ground and said he was disappointed that the commission hadn't been approached to clarify any issues of concern.
I felt mortified by my own klutziness, embarrassed by how uncoordinated I was and how many years older I was than the young things who could run for hours on the treadmills—and talk on their cell phones at the same time. CSS: Shaping the New You
Instead, agencies find they must tread a tricky path between the competing claims of state regulation and free enterprise.
Sadat now feels less restricted about what she can say, although she treads carefully around politics in her homeland.
Applicants should have completed the equivalent of advanced lessons and be able to tread water and swim two lengths of the pool.
I need to tread very carefully since there are certain matters that are before the courts, and I know only too well about being chucked in jail for contempt of court.
Delicious fragrance came to them, as if little invisible creatures were running and treading scent out of the blades of grass.
A third saguaro lies full-length in the dirt, one end squashed flat and stamped with the imprint of tire treads.
An examination showed the left main wheel had shed its tread and deflated.
Spring caplet made from a man's sweater on Treadbanger. In Which We Deviate from Writing to Fashion – These Things Happen
Aboard ship, Dana discovers that to sail is to tread the line between life and death. Richard Henry Dana
All you need is a rowing machine, gym bike and treadmill. The Sun
I'm against the principle of retreading ground unless you have something new to say.
Mr Stocks can expect a gruelling week on the publicity treadmill.
The best performers will then get to tread the boards in a top show. The Sun
Hedges effectively treads the tightrope between comedy and drama without veering too far in either direction.
Just remember to tread gently where feelings are concerned - your own as well as other people's.
The boot has a soft, treaded outsole for traction.
How the stairs were attached, the width of the treads, and how high each step was became less of a secret to me.
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.
During those forty-eight hours, the big howitzer, which is the type of the heavy German siege train -- the 225 mm. -- was brought up, and it is possible that a couple of the still larger Austrian pieces of 280 mm. (what we call in this country the 11-inch), which are constructed with flat treadles to their wheels to fire from mats laid on any reasonably hard surface (such as a roadway), had been brought up as well. A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase
"I really don't know, sir, " Ryan replied slowly, treading cautiously on this ground.
My bare feet tread lightly on the dirt floor, sweat already beginning to bead on my brow.
The heist comedy is a genre unto itself, but there is danger in retreading familiar ground.
The company that sold the "remanufactured" tire told us that they put not only new treads on their tires, but also new shoulders and sidewalls -- in other words, they replaced the entire outside of the tire. Deceptive Environmental Claims: How Should The Federal Trade Commission Clean Up Advertising Pollution?
Yet as innocuous as they seem, the treadmill is the most dangerous item to use at the gym. Times, Sunday Times
They shared the ensuing silence amicably, until the heavy tread of boot-clad feet rumbled on the narrow wooden porch of the inn's street frontage.
Slicks have no tread and are used for best traction on a dry track.
Council, whether, even at this point, they should untread their steps, and, throwing themselves upon the Czarina's 30 mercy, return to their old allegiance. De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
So in the above example, a stairway with four risers will have three treads.
She had a treadle sewing machine and mended everything.
To make my workouts enjoyable, I watched TV while I exercised on the treadmill.
I have to tread carefully, because certain persons who might claim to have been there too are liable to be up in arms the moment I stray more than an inch from the truth.
They must tread ever forward, regardless of discomfort, heedless of exhaustion.
The story is a classic one, well-told, managing to tread the difficult line between conveying thehorrific crime without salaciousness, and sympathy with the victim and her family. Book review
A moment later the front door opened and Ben heard the heavy tread of Hoss's boots against the porch boards.
An elliptical trainer combines the movements of the stair climber, treadmill and exercise bike into one. Times, Sunday Times
The tread and riser of each step is proportionately different so that consecutive steps require slightly different muscular effort, which Steele thought would reduce fatigue.
When building timber steps, these treads can be filled in with compacted soil, finishing off with bark chippings.
They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.
Did we need quite so much of a heavy tread, launching the second movement? Times, Sunday Times
However, Neer's spokesman suggested the cause of the accident could have been speeding and the use of tyre retreads.
tread grapes to make wine
Kick off your shoes, tread lightly across the shagpile, snap open a Babycham, ease back in your Parker Knoll recliner and smooch your way through this little lot like the silky smooth operator you know you can be.
There's a place where boys perhaps wisely fear to tread, somewhere where the boundaries of rock and jazz blur.
Check tyre pressures and tread, washer fluid, oil and fuel levels, and use an ice-scraper and de-icer. Times, Sunday Times
Time was I'd sit through a night like this, welcome the dawn, tread the dewy grass and catch an hour or so of sleep before the world yawned and started about its business.
Why give a treadmill test to people who have no symptoms? Living with Angina
I tread cautiously here, firstly because my one posted review, which has no comments as of this writing, is quite weak, if inoffensively so.
The spine incorporates Main and Fox streets, where pedestrians treading on the colourful paved streets have right of way.
I replaced the missing foot treadle; otherwise, it is as found.
In this regard, the resolution of the parliamentary faction treads a veritable tightrope.
Nevertheless, this introduction successfully treads the line between being readily accessible and rewardingly in-depth, and will be useful for students. The Times Literary Supplement
The festival was an outcry against everyday life and a short escape from the treadmill of the work-eat-sleep regime.
There was ne'er a gossoon in the village dared tread on the tail of my coat.
It was once an environment where only skilled and experienced climbers dared to tread. Times, Sunday Times
The wine is still made by treading grapes in the traditional way.
Check tyre pressures and tread, washer fluid, oil and fuel levels, and use an ice-scraper and de-icer. Times, Sunday Times
Even programmes such as Coupling, a laddish show loosely based on Friends, tread a predictable path, well within acceptable limits.
Finally, she heard the soft tread of two pairs of feet.
They are formed from a moulded waterproof plastic foot section, with a resilient, heavily treaded non-slip sole.
Remember, most punctures are caused by something sticking to the tread and working through during numerous wheel revolutions.
He that treadeth vppon the thressholde of the tente wherein their kinge, or anye of his chiefteines lyeth, dieth for it in the place. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
The cleaner can be used on all coverings, from shagpile carpets to wooden floorboards and ceramic tiles, and is fitted with a soft tread on the castors and wheels to protect even the most sensitive floor coverings.
Another door opened beneath the king, and a priest, followed by a band of choristers, and dancing maidens blowing joyous airs on golden horns and treading an epithalamic measure, advanced to where the pair stood side by side, and the wedding was promptly and cheerily solemnized. Short Stories for English Courses
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We offers quality staircase and stair parts including tread board , baluster, railing, handrails and specs.
Then, so soon as we had passed, the company formed up behind us and followed us towards the kraal, till at last the whole regiment of the "Greys" -- so called from their white shields -- the crack corps of the Kukuana people, was marching in our rear with a tread that shook the ground. King Solomon's Mines
The golem turned, shuffled into the V of green ribbon, shaking off clods of mold, jarring the ground with its ponderous tread.
Thespians from the North Kerry area are set to tread the boards yet again in what promises to be a side-splitting feast of comedy drama for audiences.
They also have a different tread pattern to bite into the snow better. The Sun
An unevenly worn tread indicates an alignment or tire inflation problem.
It echoes something more widespread which is (tread carefully now! Times, Sunday Times
Plush but tidy brown hush puppies softened the girl's tread, and she walked with a slight shuffle, back hunched a bit, as if she were trying to hide from the world.
Many other details, from the staircase treads to the fixings, were also executed in plastic, while, for pragmatic reasons, the load-bearing structure was made of steel.
In order to generate profits, the treadmill relies heavily on energy-intensive, capital-intensive technology, which allows it to economize on labor inputs.
You tread loathingly an indescribable earthen floor, and your eye, on entering the apartment, is arrested by a nameless production of the fictile art, certainly not of _Etruscan_ form, which is invariably placed on the _bolster_ of the truck-bed destined presently for your devoted head. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
Analysed the treading and swerving capability of the Paddy direct - seeding machine.
One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
Specials also extend to exercise equipment, with exercise bikes and small treadmills available for under $35 and home gym sets from under $450.
It was just a retread of other recent movies with a dance theme.
This is the high place of Chinese devotion, and the thoughtful visitor feels that he ought to tread its courts with unsandalled feet, for no vulgar idolatry has entered here. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
During my physio sessions, I also would walk on a treadmill, uphill, to try and strengthen and condition my lower body.
While it may play like a retread of hundreds of other King creations, Kingdom Hospital still manages to maintain its own individual integrity thanks to the skill of the man behind the pen.
The ball is kept aloft by a jet of air, so that it functions like a multidirectional treadmill. Mouse Runs on Trackball Through Virtual Maze
All workouts include push-ups, lunges, abdominal exercises and stretching performed on the treadmill while it is off.
Modern Romance" is a retread of some of his earlier work.
To resist the will of the sovereign was treason, and to avoid exile, or even the block, it was necessary to tread carefully.
And it was a cardiologist who invented the first medical treadmill to assess the impact of exercise on the heart. Times, Sunday Times
Whoever has seen old Fra Felice from the Franciscan monastery put his foot in the loop of the rope and tread up and down to start them going, knows well enough that the bells cannot begin to ring without assistance. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel

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