The tread of the stairs has been covered with rubber to keep people from slipping.
The large dog trod heavily across the wet grass.
There were tread marks on the grass where the car had backed up.
My new bicycle tires have a wider tread than the old ones.
The
tread on your tires is wearing thin. You'd better buy some new tires before you get a flat.
We could feel the heavy tread of the two-headed monsters shaking the ground beneath us as they approached from their spaceship.
Every time I try to teach my husband to dance, he treads on my
feet.
By the time we got home, teenagers had trodden food, beer and vomit into the carpet during the party.
The field workers trod tiredly home after a long day of picking strawberries.
These snow tires have an extra deep tread to keep you from sliding in snow and
ice.
A Japanese proverb notes that he who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Be careful you don't tread on the back of your sister's wedding dress during the ceremony!
Alexander Pope once noted that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Paul Harrison once observed that the poor tread lightest on the Earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control, and the more havoc we wreak.
Italian scientists have identified humankind's oldest footprints, which were trodden in volcanic ash in southern Italy at least 325,000 years ago by relatives of modern humans.