Verb (used without object) : to stride across a puddle. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : He was walking a stride or two ahead of the others. ,rapid strides in mastering algebra. From Dictionary.com.
He bowed with stiff formality and had stridden from the room before she could raise a hand to stop him. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Married]
Eden bowed and would have bidden her a good morning but she had stridden off toward the stairs without a word or a backward glance. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
But Foster was a man not easily daunted by such things, and he had stridden on manfully, fully occupied by his own thoughts, till he reached the stile where the footpath to the ruins began. From Wordnik.com. [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference
He had already been deserted by his female relatives, Georgina having been invited by young Lewis Armitage to join a group about the pianoforte, and Lavinia having stridden off without a word of explanation to join Sophie. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
He should have risen and stridden on with his retainers the miles that remained. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales] Reference
That night, we, pigmies, slept in the setting before which should have stridden the colossi of another age. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountains] Reference
Never have I stridden across such vile slaughter-house cattle as they keep for travellers on the Brenner road. From Wordnik.com. [Clementina] Reference
But he spake nought thereof, and strode on toward the Uttermost House, even as that other day he had stridden away from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men] Reference
But when the last soldier had stridden clanking out of the tent, a distant thudding became audible, like the approach of a body of horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Honour] Reference
For just then I nearly jumped out of my chair on hearing the major's voice asking for Captain Brace, and the next moment he had stridden into the room. From Wordnik.com. [Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East] Reference
Through the old woman's huge, lonely, and ugly halls he had always stridden, halting a little over the rushes, and all creatures must keep out of his way. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
Roscoe Bent had thrown his chair back and without so much as excusing himself had stridden over to the bay window, where he stood holding the curtain aside and looking out. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade with the Colors] Reference
And it was suddenly as it had been that first night when he had stridden buoyantly through the island; for he could not tell which was the secret of the prince and of these people and which was the blessedness of his love. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Island] Reference
These and others urged that the Filipinos had inalienable right to life and to liberty; that our policy in the Philippines was in derogation of those rights; that Japan, left to herself, had stridden farther in a generation than England's crown colony of India in a century; that the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)] Reference
Now, I could have sworn -- "He broke off, and hurried after Mirandolet who had stridden ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange-Yellow Diamond] Reference
You can fence like a Frenchman, you can play bowls as Father Jove plays with the globes of heaven, and you can ride like Diomed, the jolly Greek, who knew that horses could be stridden as well as driven. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference
He had already stridden from the room. From Wordnik.com. [Ungrateful Governess]
View Answers have strode have stridden. From Wordnik.com. [faw down go boom] Reference
The night was storm-stridden for hours. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Meanwhile hath warlike Menelaos Atreus 'son stridden over Patroklos and slain the best of the Trojans there, even Panthoos' son Euphorbos, and hath stayed him in his impetuous might. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
Stride strode, strid stridden. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
Like a wild god-stridden courser. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Stride, strode, stridden. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
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