"tread" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tread verbo

verbo + tread
Kolokacji: 3
fear to tread • avoid treading • keep treading
(1) fear, avoid, keep
Kolokacji: 3
1. fear to tread = strach kroczyć fear to tread
2. avoid treading = uniknij kroczenia avoid treading
  • Birds fluttered past her, and she had to step carefully to avoid treading on a small serpent that slid past her.
  • He'll do daft things, like making all the stag ponies step aside on the path to avoid treading on a slug.
  • Their bodies seemed frozen as if each had managed to stop just in time to avoid treading on a snake and was now too frightened to move.
  • I go out of my way to avoid treading on ants since each is a member of an ancient and intricate society.
  • The captain and first officer stepped gingerly into the room, careful to avoid treading on the unconscious Spaytak and his brothers.
  • Each elephant had used his broken pole like a tightrope, to avoid treading on the sharp points of the barbed wire.
  • "How can I avoid treading on thousands of these?"
  • But not so clever as to avoid treading in places you'd been warned to avoid, eh?
  • All Israel's prime ministers have walked gently near the Orthodox, to avoid treading on their parliamentary votes.
  • He could not avoid treading on the plants at the other side.
3. keep treading = kontynuuj kroczenie keep treading
tread + preposición
Kolokacji: 20
tread on • tread in • tread with • tread upon • tread down • ...
tread + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 15
tread carefully • tread lightly • tread softly • tread warily • tread heavily • ...

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