Sentence examples for light tread from inspiring English sources

So I went to Mr Burns with a light tread.

That light tread turned quickly to a heavy plod.

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.

They are light; the treads are sliced and segmented so that they bend and grip every contour in the ground.

It is a bold notion: since independence, Singapore's rulers have been so secure in office that the only aspect of politics in need of reinvention has been the opposition, whose leading lights have trodden a forlorn path of defamation suits, criminal prosecution and emigration.

How light must that tread be?

There's the light hearted, syncopated tread of Auf einer Wanderung (On a Journey) as the poet arrives in town ready for love; the critic being kicked down the stairs in Abschied (Farewell) to the strains of a drunken, ecstatic Viennese waltz; the boisterous roister-doister of Seemanns Abschied (Sailor's Farewell).