stride
verb (used without object)
to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
have strode
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present perfectof stride.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It ignores the women who have strode toward the danger with weapons, with medical know-how, with sheer determination.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2022
Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He must have strode proudly along his cell as he put his praise and his scorn into imperishable similes.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
Duncan would, I fancy, even unprotected by his blindness, have strode unabashed into the very halls of heaven.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
The man-child rose instinctively, as if she were in danger, and would have strode down the hill sword in hand to confront him.
From The Mantooth by Christopher Leadem
