Example Sentences

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Two women are striding, together, across the deck of a small boat blazing through the ocean.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2021

One way or another, then, shoemakers are striding towards a bespoke future.

From Economist • May 22, 2018

When not gazing—from windows, over battleship railings, across throngs of worshipful followers—the men of the Killing series are striding.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2015

Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.

From Economist • Nov. 13, 2014

Heavier Prussians are striding on to rear; these, from some final hill-top, do at last belch out two cannon-shots: figure the confusion at that Bridge, the speed now becoming delirious there!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Carlyle, Thomas