slide
verb (used without object)
to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface.
had slidden
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past perfectof slide.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The earth, saturated with moisture, had slidden from their steep slopes, houses and cottages were engulfed in the debris, or shattered to fragments by the descending masses, and daylight presented a strange scene of ruin.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
In an instant the very earth had slidden out from under his feet.
From The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter
For a second or two I lay on my back wondering if I could slide out of my difficulty as easily as I had slidden into it.
Up-stairs, all was still; the children were in crib and cradle, and Asenath was shaking and folding little garments,—shapes out of which the busy spirits had slidden.
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Some of them have yielded along planes passing through them, as if one half had slidden over the other; but the reattachment is very strong.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
