treading

Example Sentences

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Treading old territory to make new paths is a fine exercise, though that’s not what "Black Mirror" does, per se, with this year’s slate of episodes.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025

Treading water past few weeks since beating the Kraken and now have Tampa Bay only a point behind and looking to flip home ice in anticipated first-round playoff matchup.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Treading water I gazed back at the jungle.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2022

Treading water in a sea of mass-market books and muffins, Manning conducts a pitched battle against the mass-marketization of death.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022

Treading through seaweed mounded in pools, we slithered and groped, that we might retain our footing; and on occasions, we fell, Dr. Trefusis’s hands bleeding from the roughness of rock and incision of barnacles.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson