stride
verb (used without object)
to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
had been striding
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past perfect progressiveof stride.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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For weeks he had been striding angrily around the White House, frustrated over his inability to free the 50 American hostages in Tehran and outraged over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
From Time Magazine Archive
His grandfather, who had been striding along, his heavy brows drawn together and his glance fixed upon the frozen ground beneath his feet, looked up.
From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
He was not an absent-minded man, yet he had been striding unconsciously not toward his customary destination at that hour, the several chambers at once his office and his home.
From Half A Chance by Frederic Stewart Isham
Then he made an effort to get his legs together on one angle; but the distance he had been striding was too great, and he couldn’t recover himself, but swung away by his hands.
From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn
Here the Fingo, Kleinbooi, who had been striding on in front, his kerrie over his shoulder, now signed them to dismount.
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Bertram Mitford
