TREAD in a Sentence

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92 example sentences for TREAD, such as:

1. One woe doth tread upon another's heels.
2. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
3. Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.
4. I heard his heavy tread moving about upstairs.
5. Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to tread on your foot.

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 Meanings and Examples of TREAD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tread
 v.  step on; mate with; place the foot
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and tried to rearrange her face in more placid lines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  She pushed open the door, listened and heard Mammy's heavy tread in the downstairs hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  But she discovered she could not look for him, for if she did not step carefully she would tread on some poor soldier.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Then she heard his cautious feet on the front steps and his stealthy tread as he entered the hall and she knew that escape was cut off.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  A tall man came into the dingy room walking with a light Indian-like tread, and looking up she saw Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  So engrossed had they been in their gossip that they had not heard her light tread and now, confronted by their hostess, they looked like whispering schoolgirls caught by a teacher.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  But Mammy was showing her age and rheumatism was slowing her lumbering tread.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
8  Presently she heard a tread behind her on the terrace.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  Their heads might have been turned upside-down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  She could hear Madame Antoine's heavy, scraping tread as she walked back and forth on the sanded floor.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
11  Then after a long interval came the heavy tread of a policeman, and they held their breath till he was gone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
12  Though the tread which had left the mark had been light and rapid, it was still plainly visible.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
13  As he ran with his comrades he strenuously tried to think, but all he knew was that if he fell down those coming behind would tread upon him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  He stepped as if he expected to tread upon some explosive thing.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  She was always in motion, always with a half smile on her rosy mouth, flying hither and thither, with an undulating and cloud-like tread, singing to herself as she moved as in a happy dream.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  One woe doth tread upon another's heels.
2  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
3  Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to tread on your foot.
4  I heard his heavy tread moving about upstairs.
5  There is no tread on the tyre, you should put on a new one to keep your car safe.
6  Ah! My child, I know they have both suffered grief. They have has the black ox tread on their feet.
7  If the track we tread nowadays is smooth and easy, that is because of the pioneers who have gone before us.
8  They were bunching up, almost treading upon each other's heels.
9  The wine is still made by treading grapes in the traditional way.
10  So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and waving their forepaws to mark the time.
11  Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.