Treading

Word TREADING
Character 8
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Definitions and meanings of "Treading"

What do we mean by treading?

To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.

To step or walk upon.

To beat or press with the feet.

To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.

To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.

To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.

(of a male bird) To copulate with.

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The word "treading" in example sentences

Every so often one of them flew back to check on the Magician, who was doing what he called treading water, though it looked exactly like swimming in place. ❋ Anthony, Piers, 1934- (1994)

Very, very careful treading is necessary here — but speed is also of the essence. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Erdrich is again treading on familiar ground, considering questions of religion and identity while adding another complex layer to the life of one of her characters. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Moralists say a great deal about pain treading so very closely on the heels of pleasure in this life, but they are not always wise or grateful enough to speak of the pleasure which springs out of pain. ❋ Unknown (1885)

And, because he will not serve about the corn, he is not so well fed as the tame ox, whose mouth was not to be muzzled in treading out the corn; but therefore he will not draw the plough, because he that made him never designed him for it. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The beasts that were employed in treading out the corn (for that way they took instead of threshing it) were allowed to feed while they did the work, so that the more work they did the more food they had; therefore let the elders that labour in the word and doctrine be well provided for; for the labourer is worthy of his reward (Matt.x. 10), and there is all the reason in the world that he should have it. ❋ Unknown (1721)

11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

While Uncle Sam in treading and sinking in quicksand and Iran is doing most of the yapping, Russia and China seems more calculating and will have plenty to say before ‘it’s’ over. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Stanyhurst, whom Thomas Nash described as treading 'a foul, lumbering, boistrous, wallowing measure, in his translation of ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (1902)

The purity of the air in these exalted regions, and the lightness of my own spirits, almost seized me with the idea of treading in that element. ❋ Beckford, William (1891)

By the process called treading water, the two soon regained the surface. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Small resented the idea of treading in such steps, as an insult to himself and his cloth. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

Overall, the labor market can best be described as treading water, even as other signs of recovery start to emerge ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well I have some sympathy for the idea of treading lightly on the planet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What is most absurd in these scenarios and what links them is the notion of treading a middle or supposedly neutral path between two sides when there exists a total imbalance of power. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Being a very reverent little girl, she could not bear the idea of treading on the Holy Book; but, at last, when she had reflected that her standing on the book for the purpose she had in view, the saving of the lives of many poor sailors, could do it no harm, she placed it reverently on the top of the pile, and above it, that she might not tread directly on to it, a large basin. ❋ Various (N/A)

I had a string of unsuccessful relationships and was just kind of treading water. ❋ Jonas Elrod (2010)

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