1.   A teaching post is often only a stepping stone to a better paid profession.

2.   For the unemployed, temporary jobs can be a useful stepping stone.

3.   It is a stepping stone in my spiritual growth.

4.   Once on the other side turn left to follow the stream to the stepping stones across the East Dart.

5.   The agreement was an important diplomatic stepping stone towards independence.

6.   Many students now see university as a stepping stone to a good job.

7.   Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime.

8.   Large stone blocks are set as stepping stones for pedestrians to cross without becoming muddied.