treading water

NOUN
  1. a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms
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How To Use treading water In A Sentence

  • When I resurfaced, Jordan was treading water next to me with a huge grin.
  • In water polo, our timeouts consist of eggbeatering (treading water) to stay afloat.
  • Kennan, a bowline around his body under his arm-pits, lowered by a couple of seamen down the generous freeboard of the Ariel, who gathered in by the nape of the neck the smooth-coated Irish terrier that, treading water perpendicularly, had no eyes for him so eagerly did he gaze at the line of faces along the rail in quest of the one face. CHAPTER XX
  • James bobbed up first, treading water and grasping for a sizable slab of lumber.
  • We drifted past a pair of mergansers, treading water in a streamside eddy.
  • Treading water, he managed to shove her up onto the bank facefirst, her lower body still hanging into the river as he lifted himself out beside her. Healing the Highlander
  • 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.
  • 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.
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