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Example sentences for "tread"

Lexicographically close words:
treacheries; treacherous; treacherously; treachery; treacle; treade; treader; treaders; treadeth; treading
  1. In the night, they say, he does not sleep, but walks with heavy tread through all the chambers, talking audibly to himself, and in the daytime takes counsel for whole hours with Harasimovich.

  2. They were silent, and for a time there was nothing to be heard but the measured tread of Scottish infantry at the door of the cellar.

  3. Pass the gates of Luthany, tread the region Elenore.

  4. The hours I tread ooze memories of thee, Sweet, Beneath my casual feet.

  5. The ceiling shook beneath the tread of many hasty feet.

  6. All trails to odium you tread and boast, Yourself enamored of the dirtiest most.

  7. We had packed up our rope, and Bennen admonished me to tread in his steps.

  8. They were usually furnished with overhanging eaves of snow, from which long icicles depended, and to tread on which might be fatal.

  9. She was descending the dark steps alone, listening with supernatural sense of sound for her lover's tread without.

  10. I went myself to the door, and heard Lira's slow tread on the stairs.

  11. He advanced with cautious tread to where Hedwig sat by the window.

  12. The door slammed so that the house shook, and by degrees the smith's heavy tread died away in the vestibule.

  13. People will come early from the villages and tread down the snow, so the dogs will lose the scent.

  14. It's the tread of horses; they're coming up the loany.

  15. Bide now, bide like a good lassie, till I spread the sheet for you to tread on.

  16. And then the noble bard took up his hollow lyre, and in them stirred desire for merry music and the gallant dance; and the great house resounded to the tread of lusty men and gay-girt women.

  17. If the earth is ever again to see any verdure, it must first grow along the path which my daughter will tread in coming back to me.

  18. How carefully should every foot be placed, when we know that every step we tread is among snares!

  19. And the "God of peace will tread down Satan under our feet," Rom.

  20. What is this but to scorn thy Saviour, and scorn all the work of redemption, and tread under foot the Son of God, and despise his blood, his life, and precepts?

  21. The seats we sit upon, the pillars we lean to, the stones we tread upon, will be here, when we are turned to dust.

  22. How many millions of such worms as thou can he tread to hell, or destroy in a moment!

  23. Can he not tread thee into hell, or ruin thee, and be avenged on thee with a word or less?

  24. He is a worm that God can in one moment tread into the earth and hell.

  25. If you tread fearfully, others will fear there is some quicksand.

  26. They are unlawful sports which are used to the wrong of others: as players, that defame and reproach other men; and hunters and hawkers, that tread down poor men's corn and hedges.

  27. Robbie was there against the window, asking how many Huns his daddy had brought down, and I was sitting here in the shadow, when quite suddenly we heard his tread on the stairs.

  28. Above the roar of what was going on in the clouds, she had heard another and more alarming sound; the front-door closed quietly, a match struck and then the slow deliberate tread of someone groping up the stairs.

  29. Still silent, Low kept his rigid face and forward tread for twenty yards further; then he stopped and released the girl's half-impatient hand.

  30. In the first access of his blind terror he tried to reach the deck above through the forehatch, but was stopped by the sound of a heavy tread overhead.

  31. What lower forms of life might have crept close to its roots were hidden in the ferns, or passed with deadened tread over the bark-strewn floor.

  32. The heavy tread of Abner Nott echoed in the passage.

  33. Then he turned back to his search, and began to subject each tread of the staircase to the same minute examination as the hall had received.

  34. She may, perhaps, have been wondering whether or no they touched the ground, for so lightly did she tread that a mere spectator might have felt very grave doubts on the subject.

  35. Tis a footpad,' I thought, for he was velvet-footed, and I heard no tread on the pavement.

  36. Almost at once I heard a firm tread of feet upon the stairs below, and there mounting quickly another figure now showed at the head of the stairs, and I recognised in the half light that it was my uncle.

  37. I went through it all; the same sickening disappointments, the same hopes and fears; I trod the self-same path that every beginner must assuredly tread, as we must all in time tread that other path to the grave.

  38. Of Vesuvius in its milder moods I never had a high opinion; and, though I should have liked to tread the unburied streets of Pompeii, yet Rome has nearly surfeited me with ruins.

  39. You shall tread the path of your ambition childless and objectless and hopeless.

  40. His children promised to tread in the same useful and honourable path that he trod himself.

  41. Yet the world, and those who tread it, can never more be quite the same to me, and that is not wholesome.

  42. Yet how can I choke the truth and tread down the human heart within me?

  43. On the eastern sky of a sudden two golden doors had opened in the canopy of night, and in and out of them seemed to pass glittering, swift-winged things, as souls might tread the Gate of Heaven.

  44. Parliament resenting this, regarded it as intended to win the soldiers to his cause, that he might tread in Cromwell's steps, and make himself Dictator.

  45. Indeed, they were far more occupied in their petty feuds than thinking of presenting a sufficient front to the great enemy who, if successful, would tread them all down in their own territories as Buonaparte afterwards crushed their posterity.

  46. He was in treaty with Louis for ten thousand foot and a body of cavalry, to enable him to tread down the remaining liberties of the people.

  47. He would build a large number of good roads, capable of standing the tread of these howitzers.

  48. Then a heavy tread was heard outside the major's quarters, and a loud knock came upon his door.

  49. Yet many were abroad, and from certain streets of the town arose unwonted sounds, the steady tread of marching feet, the occasional click of steel, the rattle of accoutrements.

  50. There the towering pines range themselves in ever-receding colonnades upon a carpet smooth and soft as ever hushed the tread of Sultan's foot.

  51. And I heard the heavy tread of two men coming down the stairs, a lighter step behind them.

  52. It is said the trippant tread of Fate doth leave no print upon the sand to mark its passage, nor doth she sound a note of warning that the waiting hand may grasp her garments as she flies.

  53. For many rods at times she would be lost to view in the dark, and her tread was so light it scarcely made a sound--or the great, clumsy clattering I created drowned it entirely.

  54. Hush, fool; dost not hear the tread of Vauban's men outside?

  55. I fancied again I heard the tread of men in the passage.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tread" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.