bides
- present tense form of bide (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Now, as Lindy Chamberlain did before her, Kathleen Folbigg bides her time in jail, awaiting the outcome of the petition and a recent hearing in the NSW Court of Appeal.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2021
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
Fittingly, Philippe bides his time before getting to the chest-burster scene, and he teases us with the possibility that he might not even show it at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2019
In a setting that suggests an enchanted forest, he bides his time until a revelation of what he calls “glory” appears.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2014
Who bides his time, and day by day, 105.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James
