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
If I may imagine myself, though, I must have strode along the street like a determined machine.
From Micro-Man by Forrest J. Ackerman
Alfred at the head of his army, strode down the column as Jupiter is said to have strode down the spheres as he hurled his thunderbolts at the Titans.
From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden
