(1) Each of them is an apocalyptic retread of Lord Of The Flies, but with all hot GQ-model Ralphs and no myopic Piggys.
(2) Good day: retread minister David Laws fondly recalled his first Lib Dem conference in 1994 when rampaging delegates called for legalised pot and an end to the monarchy.
(3) After 20 minutes of this well-designed and passably kinetic, albeit utterly humourless and derivative retread, I began to feel those two words like some kind of goading, pulsing taunt, as if they'd been implanted in my brain like the bespoke memories you can buy in the movie.
(4) "It was just a retread of the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle-class for years," Obama said.
(5) The bulk were retreaded Old Labourites who, together with people who voted Green at the election, gave Corbyn his victory.
(6) Critics complain that the ranks of ex-Westminster retreads and former police authority chairmen that dominate the lists so far, despite the best efforts of Lord Prescott, are hardly sprinkled with stardust.
(7) Some are decent films, but are simply retreading narratives that we are fed again and again: our particular favourites are when White-People-Solve-Racism (The Help) or Arabs-Are-Up-To-No-Good (The Hurt Locker).
(8) He may even manage to hang on for a time by surrounding himself with a retinue of loyalists and retreads, among them the former Tory spin doctor turned Labour MP Shaun Woodward.
(9) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
(10) The readability debate is in fact another retread of various arguments that beset what has become known as literary fiction – a woolly genre that encompasses books that don't sell very well, books that aren't "genre" fiction and anything with a taint of modernism or experiment.
(11) It is the Blairite retreads in his own party that censor his passion.
(12) Even the movie that was supposed to herald the return of the genre more than two decades ago, Clint Eastwood 's Oscar-winning Unforgiven , was a brilliant retread of familiar themes rather than a plunge into fresh waters.
(13) And younger MPs have indeed shown some interest in new ideas and imaginative policies that aren’t simply retreads of the previous government’s initiatives.
(14) albopictus, an investigation of tire retreading operations was initiated to determine the source and mode of introduction of Ae.
(15) However, it could not repeat the first film's positive critical reception, with reviewers complaining that the storyline amounted to little more than an unimaginative retread of part one.
(16) But he kept the boat afloat with a handful of retreads and wannabes, and most of all, well above average pitching .
(17) In an aircraft type retreading plant environmental samples taken at several departments showed mutagenic properties.
(18) Maybe this means a few more Christmas retreads, but who cares?
Tread
Definition:
(v. i.) To set the foot; to step.
(v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
(v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
(v. t.) To step or walk on.
(v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
(v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
(v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
(v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
(n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
(n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
(n.) Way; track; path.
(n.) The act of copulation in birds.
(n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
(n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
(n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
(n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
(n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will it continue treading water, deciding cases in pretty much the same way as the law lords used to do - although using blunter language?
(2) He has to tread some of the same path as Joe Biden but without the posturing and aggression.
(3) I'm not in the least ambitious, never have been, and I don't tread on people.
(4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
(5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(6) Kristen Woolf, girl-centred practice and strategy director, The Girl Hub , London, UK, @girleffect Don't lose focus on girls: Very clearly men and boys have got to be a central component of the solution, but we need to tread carefully here not to lose the focus on equality and empowerment for girls and women.
(7) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
(8) This assignment to Cairo had been relatively routine - an opportunity to get to know Egyptian politics a little better; but with only three weeks on the ground, hardly time to do anything other than tread water.
(9) UK schools are treading water when we know that matching the very best could boost the growth rate by one percentage point every year.
(10) A noninvasive criterion of occlusions of the lower limb arteries was elaborated from the results of transcutaneous measurement of oxygen tension (TmO2) during treading on a treadmill.
(11) 1982) suggested to require DA (head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading).
(12) But the oxygen saturations on swimming were in all patients higher than after tread-wheel exercise.
(13) The changes at CDC, which is supposed to invest where other investors fear to tread, follow criticism of the organisation for focusing too much on profits and not enough on development.
(14) Now he’s remarried, with a young, new family, and treading the boards on Broadway.
(15) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
(16) It was only when I was criticized for writing science fiction that I realized I was treading on sacred ground."
(17) That line is trickier to tread for working-class comics, into which category Bishop – with a Liverpool accent so rich it's got calories – falls.
(18) We tread a fine line and, because each picture is judged on its merits on the day, it is very difficult to have hard and fast rules.
(19) Where German officials have feared to tread, dramatists have rushed in.
(20) That doesn’t mean no one should ever criticise Israel, for fear of treading on Jewish sensitivities.