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• Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.
• Castro steps down as Cuban leader (news.bbc.co.uk)
• When making a pass, step forward with one foot.
• You will need a box, bench or step about 30cm high.
• Initiation rites can be a vital step in the transition to adult life.
• Start by using small steps before changing to larger strides.
• Alcoholics Anonymous has a ten-step program toward recovery.
• Watch the step at the end of the corridor.
• Walk three steps forward, and then turn right.
• Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
• Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
• I have lately taken steps[...]to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
• Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
• The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
• A “moving platform” scheme[...]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
• The approach of a man is often known by his step.
• It is but a step.
• To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
• He improved step by step, or by steps.
• One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.
• The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.
• One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
• The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
• Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
• We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.
• They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. — Alexander Pope
• Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. — James Thomson
• to step to one of the neighbors