tread water in a sentence

Examples

1. He said some of the starving hogs had to tread water for days before they were saved.
2. They are left to tread water disconsolately.
3. You don't want to tread water ."
4. All this might suggest that both the dollar and bond markets might tread water for a time.
5. We lost who we were, what made us really good instead of just able to tread water.
6. How about the ability to tread water?
7. Analysts expect the market largely to tread water as the Federal Reserve meets today on interest rates.
8. Every hour I stop and tread water.
9. Another furiously treads water with just her feet and keeps snappily saluting . . . well, nobody.
10. AMD is going to tread water.