Birds fluttered past her, and she had to step carefully to avoid treading on a small serpent that slid past her.

He'll do daft things, like making all the stag ponies step aside on the path to avoid treading on a slug.

Their bodies seemed frozen as if each had managed to stop just in time to avoid treading on a snake and was now too frightened to move.

I go out of my way to avoid treading on ants since each is a member of an ancient and intricate society.

The captain and first officer stepped gingerly into the room, careful to avoid treading on the unconscious Spaytak and his brothers.

Each elephant had used his broken pole like a tightrope, to avoid treading on the sharp points of the barbed wire.

"How can I avoid treading on thousands of these?"

But not so clever as to avoid treading in places you'd been warned to avoid, eh?

All Israel's prime ministers have walked gently near the Orthodox, to avoid treading on their parliamentary votes.

He could not avoid treading on the plants at the other side.