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 he spake nought thereof, and strode on toward the Uttermost House, even as that other day he had stridden away from it.
From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by Morris, William
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 Grier, Sydney C.
He had never scrupled to thrust from his path whoever or whatever stood in his way, and had stridden on without a backward glance.
From The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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
