How to Use tread lightly in a Sentence

tread lightly

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• Now tread lightly on the pedal.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• Mercury still has a few more tricks up its sleeve, so tread lightly and go with the flow.
  — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 26 July 2026
• That's totally fine too, just tread lightly though.
  — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
• The lords of baseball tread lightly, fearful of waking ghosts.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Plan ahead, tread lightly and (most importantly), look up!
  — Jp Shaffer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2025
• These zones have enabled Thornton to lead the kind of safaris that tread lightly on the land.
  — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2025
• That has forced Israel to tread lightly in its criticism of the war in Ukraine.
  — Tia Goldenberg, ajc, 2 May 2022
• When deploying law globally, even in the service of a good cause, judges should tread lightly.
  — José A. Cabranes, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015
• The government has tread lightly on all things military, to avoid stirring unrest at home.
  — Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
• Matters can reach a fever pitch on the 17th, so tread lightly and don't let conversations get too out of control.
  — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 6 Nov. 2025
• Think of Allmendinger desperate to pick his way through the field from the rear one-third while young newcomers tread lightly at the front.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2020
• Putin had hoped that the fear of nuclear attack would compel Ukraine to tread lightly and make its supporters back off.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2022
• This is not the first time Canales has had to tread lightly while mulling a change involving a high-profile offensive player.
  — Joseph Person, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
• And his understanding, back then, of the need to tread lightly on the natural world reads now as a haunting and prescient warning.
  — Jordan Salama, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2021
• Exoplanet claims were met with growing doubt, and astronomers learned to tread lightly before announcing a new find.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2019
• Those with psoriasis should tread lightly with scalp massagers, as they shouldn’t be used on open or broken skin and could cause further irritation.
  — Susan Brickell, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
• Truth is, Mars retrograde in your sixth house could make the usual festivities and tasks feel overwhelming — tread lightly and take it slow.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
• Schools will have to tread lightly to implement responsive curricula that do not provoke backlash.
  — Morgan Polikoff, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Or, tread lightly with a cleaning solution of water and mild dishwashing liquid soap (a drop or two of dishwashing soap per half-gallon of water).
  — Jennifer Kopf, Country Living, 16 Jan. 2020
• College basketball isn’t broken simply because elite freshmen tread lightly into their futures.
  — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• The objects on display tread lightly, rhythmically, metaphorically, across the two main floors of the downtown building.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
• Guides ride with some drivers to inspire fearlessness and help teach all the proper tread lightly techniques for Bronco off-road activity.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
• But this is precisely why, diplomatically speaking, Britain’s allies ought to tread lightly.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Those who are concerned about the environment tread lightly before answering or sharing on social media their great love of wanderlust.
  — Sophia Li, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2022
• And other enterprise tech companies will have to be aware of the boundaries that emerge from Google’s contest with the government and be prepared to tread lightly.
  — Jared Council, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• However, the big man isn’t a definite home-run upgrade, so Chicago should tread lightly and patiently explore all options.
  — Jason Patt, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• Still, investors should tread lightly, according to Evercore ISI.
  — Brian Evans, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
• So far, however, Biden administration officials have tread lightly in calling out events in Israel.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Preservation advocates, therefore, argue that any retrofit must tread lightly, honoring the building’s character and meaning.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
• Therefore, Democrats may tread lightly on certain policy positions such as wide-scale student loan cancellation that could impact members of Congress in tough re-election races.
  — Zack Friedman, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021