STRIDE in a Sentence
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88 example sentences for STRIDE, such as:
1. The boy walked with a manly stride.
2. In one short stride, he reached the window.
3. Shea's testimony threw the defense off stride.
4. When he's got into his stride, I am sure his work will improve.
5. They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field.
2. In one short stride, he reached the window.
3. Shea's testimony threw the defense off stride.
4. When he's got into his stride, I am sure his work will improve.
5. They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field.
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Meanings and Examples of STRIDE
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stride
n. significant progress (especially in the phrase
v. cover or traverse by taking long steps
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1 Why, the height of a man, in nine cases out of ten, can be told from the length of his stride.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2 I had this fellow's stride both on the clay outside and on the dust within.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3 Well, if a man can stride four and a-half feet without the smallest effort, he can't be quite in the sere and yellow.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4 Prince John struck his forehead with impatience, and then began to stride up and down the apartment.
5 Every stride of the horses and every turn of the wheels was taking us nearer to our supreme adventure.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Context Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
6 The animal has been moving, and we have the length of its stride.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
Context Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
7 You can see for yourself that anyone going out through that open window could reach the front doorstep by taking a long stride.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
8 He came up the walk with the springy stride of a savage and his fine head was carried like a pagan prince.
9 I wouldn't be satisfied to entertain like the Welly Brys; I'd want something that would look more easy and natural, more as if I took it in my stride.
10 She felt that she could run on all night, leap twenty feet at a stride.
11 But in the morning he would get up and shake himself, and stride away again to battle with the world.
12 His musket bounced a trifle from his shoulder at each stride and made his cap feel uncertain upon his head.
13 On the march he went along with the stride of a hunter, objecting to neither gait nor distance.
14 Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.
15 One might say that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more speedily.
Example Sentence:
1 The trivial upsets of daily living assume importance but the big tragedies they take in their stride.
2 In one short stride, he reached the window.
3 The boy walked with a manly stride.
4 Shea's testimony threw the defense off stride.
5 When he's got into his stride, I am sure his work will improve.
6 Some people find retiring difficult; but he has taken it all in his stride.
7 The conquering hero didn't simply stride down the street; he used to swagger.
8 They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field.
9 An explosive growth of international trade, combined with recent strides in telecommunication and information technology, has given rise to the global village.
10 It is particularly an issue for those that have made large strides in industrial development, the sector of the economy that tends to consume the most energy.
11 It is an issue for those that have made large strides in industrial development: the sector of economy consumes the most energy.