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
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
He bides his time, hoping his health improves, hoping his pay resumes, hoping his own children escape his fate.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2020
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
Arise! the craven host draws nigh, In thundering array; Arise, ye brave! let cowards fly— The hero bides the fray.
From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous
