bade
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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He wasn’t ready for Catherine O’Hara to go, nor Rob Reiner, who bade Idle a poignant farewell at a recent L.A. party.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
Some visitors were pictured sobbing as they bade the bears goodbye.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
Both are alarmed by the sudden reappearance of a Frenchman nicknamed Beast, to whom they’d each bade goodbye years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
With two blasts of its horn, MV Hebridean Isles bade farewell as it left the quay at Stornoway for a final time on Sunday, bound for Glasgow before it goes to the breakers.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024
‘And I would do as the master of the house bade me, were this only a woodman’s cot, if I bore now any sword but Andúril.’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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