stride
verb (used without object)
to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
had strode
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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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There were photos on the wall, the trappings of fame, money, the sense that giants had strode into this place, that the gods bought instruments here, or just strings and picks.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2018
Coach Douglas’s son had strode into the library like he owned the entire school.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
One morning, a tall, black-haired, uncouth young man, in a slouch hat and a Prince Albert coat, had strode up to the school with a big paper box under his arm and asked for June.
From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox
"What do you think?" she began, handing me a cup of tea as soon as I had strode to the parlour fire-place.
From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens
He had strode about for a couple of hours—in another mood—and then had returned to the charge.
From Eugene Pickering by Henry James
