treadmill

Example Sentences

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The middle class is on a treadmill, and every year the belt speeds up.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

The pattern holds whether scientists are testing how fast lizards run on a treadmill, measuring how sharks swim in the ocean, or tracking how quickly bacterial cells divide.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026

The lawyer said these efforts enticed users to a "treadmill of continuous checking" for new content.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

The ad shows a college student arriving home to see that her childhood bedroom now contains a treadmill, with her father running on it awkwardly, wearing short shorts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

If I changed direction, the treadmill would sense it, and its rolling surface would change direction to match me, always keeping my body near the center of its platform.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline