stride
verb (used without object)
to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
had stridden
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past perfectof stride.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He had stridden through the deep woods with no thought of danger; he concentrated only on finding the pair that he had seen so close to death.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
But Foster was a man not easily daunted by such things, and he had stridden on manfully, fully occupied by his own thoughts, till he reached the stile where the footpath to the ruins began.
From True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by D. A. Helm
Then, half-mad with grief, the old man had flung the reins across the steaming beast, and without a word of explanation had stridden away in the direction of Sallertaine.
From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Ren? Bazin
But when the last soldier had stridden clanking out of the tent, a distant thudding became audible, like the approach of a body of horse.
From The Path to Honour by Sydney C. Grier
Quick as lightning, the Wondersmith had stridden a few paces, and grasped the poor cripple, who was yet quivering with the departing thunder of his passion.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
