ride out


verb
  1. (tr, adverb) to endure successfully; survive (esp in the phrase ride out the storm)

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How to use ride out in a sentence

  • Coppy, in a tone of too-hastily-assumed authority, had told her over night that she must not ride out by the river.

  • Isabel told him politely never to ride out without using the telephone first, and had her excuses already coined.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • Coppy, in a tone of too hastily assumed authority, had told her over night that she must not ride out by the river.

    English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
  • So much is there to see, indeed, that it is not until the next day we can ride out for a sight beyond the walls.

  • But if you succeed, ride out of the mountain-desert with her—never let me hear of it.

    Riders of the Silences | John Frederick

Other Idioms and Phrases with ride out

ride out

Survive, outlast, as in They rode out the storm, or Times were hard during the depression, but we managed to ride it out. [First half of 1500s]

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