Sentence examples for a light tread from inspiring English sources

So I went to Mr Burns with a light tread.

Krause writes like the field naturalist he is, attentively and with a light tread.

I backed away from the stream, slowly and with a light tread, like someone easing out of a room so as not to wake a sleeping baby.

So it was with a light tread — the tread, dare I say it, of someone half my age — that I skipped gaily into town to stock up on face cream.

Now, at last, we tread with a lighter tread.

It has been such an upbeat pleasure meeting them, I think, as I return – with a lighter tread – to the Uxbridge Road and the rain.

That light tread turned quickly to a heavy plod.

Here again, the developers are trying to tread with a light step: Archaeologists surveying the site discovered a large cave with human bones, pottery and other artifacts dating from before the arrival of Columbus.

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That's the simple but smart narrative idea behind Jeff Cohen's play "The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller," a Dog Run Rep production that has a light, sure touch even when it treads on weighty cultural ground.

Academia treads here with stout boots, but even for the inquisitive generalist, this is a browser's paradise — and many contributors see no harm in a light heart.