stride
verb (used without object)
to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
stridden
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past participleof stride.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
Example Sentences
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And it is into this perceived vacuum that Andy Burnham has stridden, again, to the intense irritation of Downing Street and plenty of Labour MPs.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
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
Then, half-mad with grief, the old man had flung the reins across the steaming beast, and without a word of explanation had stridden away in the direction of Sallertaine.
From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Ren? Bazin
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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Through the old woman's huge, lonely, and ugly halls he had always stridden, halting a little over the rushes, and all creatures must keep out of his way.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
