Example Sentences

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In the week and a half prior to that, it had been treading water around $26,000.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2023

“We had been treading water for what seemed like an eternity -- it was just me, my mom and my aunt running the place” during the auto crisis, said owner Earl Ross, 36.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 18, 2012

Last week Harvester revealed that it had been treading on thin ice all along: it quit the freezer business.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Coast Guard was told that Ryan had only been missing for approximately ten minutes, when, in reality, he had been treading water for nearly an hour.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead center of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling