- present participle of tread.
treading
Example Sentences
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Treading under the surface of the water, for generations, has been a darker narrative.
From Salon • Aug. 3, 2024
Treading carefully on the soggy ground, I pushed through the dense cordgrass to inspect them.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023
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 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
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