"tread" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tread verbo

verbo + tread
Kolokacji: 3
fear to tread • avoid treading • 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 • ...
1. tread lightly = postępować ostrożnie tread lightly
2. tread softly = krocz łagodnie tread softly
3. tread gently = krocz łagodnie tread gently
  • She guessed Tom knew, of course, and half expected to be told to tread gently, that she wasn't on her own domestic territory.
  • The sound was the light, shuffling footfall of someone treading gently, cautiously along the shell-strewn path.
  • Foreign governments began to press the Philippines to tread gently, but the government has taken a hard line.
  • Meredith got the feeling he was unleashing a reply of an argument that Klein had lost many times and tried to tread gently.
  • Treading gently across the corridor carpeting, he saw that the door to the first bedroom, Hannah's bedroom, was open and the lights were on.
  • The campus police have no jurisdiction here, and the local police tread gently.
  • Tread gently and safely, high favored beast, while your master bestrides your back.
  • Thus, Microsoft argues, antitrust policy should tread gently in this dynamic arena.
  • He stopped swimming and hung in the water, treading gently and paddling with his hands.
  • If you will all tread a little more gently, Jane might be able to watch it.
4. tread quietly = krocz cicho tread quietly
(3) heavily, hard
Kolokacji: 2
(4) slowly, silently
Kolokacji: 2

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