Synonym: pace, step, walk. Similar words: get ready, read, treat, bread, treaty, stream, streak, thread. Meaning: [tred] n. 1. a step in walking or running 2. the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire 3. the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground 4. structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step. v. 1. put down or press the foot, place the foot 2. tread or stomp heavily or roughly 3. crush as if by treading on 4. brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center 5. apply (the tread) to a tire 6. mate with.
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91. Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger.
92. This is especially true where dust and grime collects and in heavy tread areas like the hall, stairs and landing.
93. He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head.
94. Ambition: Will cause you to rush in where angels fear to tread.
95. The ground shook beneath the steady marching of the great mass of men and the tread of thousands of hoofs.
96. It was with relief that I heard Sherlock Holmes's familiar tread upon the stairs.
97. Do not let anybody, particularly gardening writers, tread on your dreams.
98. As if in answer to her wish she heard a heavy, masculine tread on the uncarpeted stairs outside her door.
99. Don't know the rules, don't want to tread on any toes.
100. However, a partner needs gentle handling to tread gently and with extreme caution.
101. Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad's boots on the cobbles.
102. She patrolled the aisles like a gaoler and woe betide you if that heavy tread stopped at your desk.
103. You're right to tread carefully, as if you do say anything to him you might well frighten him off!
104. The government has just introduced new regulations about the tread on car tyres.
105. But that, after all, is to tread a path that many trod.
106. I was deep in such thoughts when I heard Mum's unmistakable heavy tread coming towards the door.
107. Miss Fergusson, umbrella aloft and pistol at her belt led the way with the certain tread of the righteous.
108. The outside of the shoe was constructed from woven fabric and metal with a ribbed silicon rubber tread.
109. But all was still save the measured tread of the sentinel and the gentle whispers of the genial night breeze.
110. A menacing red jaguar with gleaming green eyes greets those who dare to tread further.
111. They did not tread lightly in the cloying mud,(Sentencedict.com) and deserved victory for a greater variety and directness in attack.
112. Theirs are carefully placed slots made by cloven hooves, the ancient tread of wood-demons, Pan marks.
113. Suddenly there came the sound of the tread of the patriarch.
114. Some drivers whose tyre tread is below the new legal limit have been let off with a caution ... others face prosecution.
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115. Don't tread on the flower beds.
116. You'd better tread on this part of the floor.
117. What about tread routes, mountain climbing and alpinism?
118. Tread lightly, or you will wake the baby.
119. Tread warily; destiny does not await you.
120. Tread out the fire before you go.
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