treadmill

Example Sentences

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The middle class is on a treadmill, and every year the belt speeds up.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

The pattern holds whether scientists are testing how fast lizards run on a treadmill, measuring how sharks swim in the ocean, or tracking how quickly bacterial cells divide.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026

The lawyer said these efforts enticed users to a "treadmill of continuous checking" for new content.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

The proliferation of scientific journals has created an almost insatiable need, and professors on the treadmill of grants, research and publishing are hard pressed to fit in such volunteering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

They checked the condition of my heart by making me walk on a treadmill that they adjusted to get steeper and steeper as the minutes went by.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins