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Example sentences for "striding"

Lexicographically close words:
strictures; stride; strided; strident; strides; stridor; stridulate; stridulating; stridulation; stridulous
  1. Tom Maxwell paused in his excited striding to look in astonishment at the speaker.

  2. I'm going across," shouted the Very Young Man suddenly, and began striding forward into the struggling mass.

  3. Lylda had left the city; the last they had seen of her, she was striding rapidly away, over the country towards Orlog.

  4. He arose and stood at the window, looking with a smile of satisfaction after Oswald, who with head held haughtily erect, face pale, and eyes flashing angrily, was striding directly across the square to the smithy.

  5. Leaping down from the platform and striding over the cinder-blackened ties, the agent met him before he crossed the second track--met him and spoke in tone so low even Big Ben could not hear.

  6. The young "first captain" called them to attention and gave the commands that swung them into column of platoons and striding away under the leafy arch to the open plain.

  7. He spake, and incontinently took to striding away from me, in such wise, that maulgre and albe, I gan make effort after him, nathlesse and algates did child Gwyn forthwith flee from mine eyne.

  8. There were some men in uniform striding busily about.

  9. How many times he had watched them or their duplicates striding and mincing and bounding by, each moving like an animated note of interrogation!

  10. A tall young fellow had turned in at the gate, and was striding along toward the house as if in a great hurry.

  11. He was striding along whistling as cheerily as if it were a midsummer day.

  12. It was the second week in April; the break-up of the winter had almost begun; the spring was striding up from the south and a cry of travel was in the air, both hopeful and melancholy.

  13. There was the sound of long striding steps ascending the mound; it was not the tread of Peggy.

  14. Steve shouted, and a man armed with an atorifle came striding clumsily through the sand toward him.

  15. Planus was striding along amid the tumult, when suddenly he stopped.

  16. To see Risler striding to and fro, with his hands behind his back, as calm as usual, no one would ever have suspected all that had taken place in his life since the night before.

  17. Roland, in much inward commotion, was striding through the cloisters on his way to find that reverend divine, when he strode up to the throng of disputants, who were far too much preoccupied with their own concerns to observe him.

  18. As Arthur was going down Close Street, he encountered Mr. Williams, the cathedral organist, striding along with a roll of music in his hand.

  19. Thank you for your defence of Arthur," said Tom Channing to Roland Yorke, as the latter was striding away.

  20. Looking in the direction whence it came they saw Chingatok striding over the rocks towards them with unusual haste.

  21. He started up, grinding his teeth and striding about his hut, knocking over pots, oil cans, and cooking-lamps somewhat like that famous bull which got into a china shop.

  22. An old countrywoman in a full satiny skirt, carrying a long pole over her shoulder, was striding energetically across a field as we passed.

  23. He was in such a rage that he looked more like a large monkey than ever while he was striding in and out of every dismantled room; and Dorothy realized the extreme malice of the joke that had been played upon him.

  24. IV Well, I know you'll swear it's true That you found him decked in blue Striding up through morning-land With a cloud on either hand.

  25. Striding within javelin range Goliath marvels at this strange Goodly-faced boy so proud of strength.

  26. Sir, I care not whither so long as it is hence," cried Fritzing, passionately striding to the door.

  27. From this lead flat there opened the window of his own bedroom, and in a moment he was striding through it.

  28. Striding over the sands, the past of his childhood came back to him with a sense of pain.

  29. I will," said Yates shortly, striding to the horses' heads.

  30. Jack was striding in with Una's name on his lips, but he stopped short at sight of Lady Bell, and the flush seemed an epidemic, for it glowed under his tan.

  31. Either the ascent or the return should be made along the Pen Helig ridge, with regard to the terrors of which the guide-books have used language as exaggerated as the descriptions of Striding Edge on Helvellyn.

  32. He hurried out of the room with the letter, down to the Waag, striding along with a six-foot pole.

  33. Idalia could approach so near the form striding on before her that she was in a position to recognize it.

  34. The living figure stepped down from the frame of the altar picture, and striding over books and stools came nearer.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "striding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.