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.
The fog still gliding in and out --- like a suspicious moorhen treading water with its prodigious pale toes on a busy river. BEHINDLINGS
Who would eat something that has spent its life treading water around sewage outlets?
You are still just treading water, gulping brine into your empty heart and lungs.
We drifted past a pair of mergansers, treading water in a streamside eddy.
I certainly wouldn't have picked her for the job, and even thought her marked for demotion or treading water.
Even while treading water through some of the soapier scenes, and there are a few -- but not too many, you never want to leave your seat, because there could be a piece of the puzzle you just might miss. Michael Russnow: Seven Pounds Is a Damned Good Film: The Critics Are Wrong, So What Else Is New?