bide
verb (used with object)
to endure; bear.
bides
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present tense formof bide (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Henry bides his time, watching other subjects closely before befriending Eleven.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
Anyone familiar with Gurnah’s work knows that he bides his time, withholding the meaning of a moment because his often-displaced characters don’t know how to express it — or can’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
But if the host cell is lucky, maybe the virus simply settles into this cozy outpost—either going dormant or back-engineering its little genome into the host’s genome—and bides its time.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 14, 2021
But she still usually bides her time, letting other Justices have their say before homing in calmly, yet relentlessly, on weaknesses that she’s identified in an argument.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
No Paul, no Benedict, no Hugh of Lincoln, no Columbia, no Guthlac bides in this cell.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
