Sentence examples for wanted to tread from inspiring English sources

"We wanted to tread lightly, to be neighborhood friendly".

In 1916, Sherwood Anderson wrote that Dreiser's "brutal heavy feet" had opened a path for realism and sexual candor — the path that Anderson himself wanted to tread.

His first job in the theatre was as a teenager, operating the stage lights at the Bristol Hippodrome, which further convinced him that he wanted to tread the boards.

Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had weighed plans to kill or capture top leaders of Al Qaeda inside Pakistan, but Mr. Rumsfeld, for all his public bravado, wanted to tread cautiously in Pakistan for fear of undermining Mr. Musharraf.

So when he needed more space to accommodate his two growing sons, himself and his partner, Dan Zelen, who owns Zelen, a design store in Los Angeles, he wanted to tread lightly.

China considered US support of Taiwan against their interests, and the US State Department wanted to tread carefully.

But he may want to tread carefully.

"I want to tread a bit delicately.

But he didn't want to tread "old ground," he said in his speech.

What developer would want to tread on the bones of heroes?

Once more, this isn't a political area where the Grand Coalition can want to tread.