How to use "step" in a sentence

I make the rope even shorter, but when I step on it, nothing happens

I step down and lay my head on the boulder

I step inside and look around

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

If there be an object to HURRY any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take DELIBERATELY, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.

Valjean took a step forward

You open the door a little more and step out onto the landing

You take one more step to the door

When you know what they're trying to do, you're one step ahead; you've won half the battle already

As I stood looking down at the bed, I heard a step behind me.

Working with that kind of money wasn't merely a step up for her; it was a giant leap.

Step by step, her curiosity gave way to fear

She edged around the pit, determined to make the hateful bastard stop what he was doing, but he took a step away from her for every step that she took toward him, and he always stayed directly across the hole from her

She took a step toward him, but then she realized that he might have come here straight from a computer in one of the other third-floor offices

Elliot took a step toward them.

When Elliot refused to move away from the sink to the breakfast table in the far corner of the big kitchen, Bob, the smaller of the two men, hesitated, then reluctantly took a step toward him.

Another step.

One more step.

"But if I wait, I'm just giving him a chance to keep one step ahead." Worried, he continued to hesitate, anxiously chewing his lip.

With every step he took, Elliot expected to hear a shot fired a cry of alarm, and the sounds of men in pursuit of quarry.

"We're still one step ahead of them," Elliot said shakily.

"Half a step."

The hole in the wall was not wide enough for him to step through, into her passageway; he could only thrust one arm at her, and his long, bony fingers were an inch or two short of her

The place is built into the next step of the mountain

Tina had the sickening feeling that someone had been about to step out, had sensed their presence, and had gone away to get help.

She took a step, then another, and before she knew it, she was at the window, beside Dombey.

'Oh!' Miss Marple was just about to step into the garden when she suddenly stopped

I took a step towards it, and it rose up and became a man armed with a sword

I took a step towards it and stood looking out.

Their next step was to enter politics and become politicians