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
On Basil's lips quivered a word, a question, but before it could be uttered the soldier had stridden away, his casque gleaming in the sun, and his sword clanking beside him.
From Veranilda by George Gissing
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
But when the last soldier had stridden clanking out of the tent, a distant thudding became audible, like the approach of a body of horse.
From The Path to Honour by Sydney C. Grier
