STRIDE in a Sentence

Learn STRIDE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

88 example sentences for STRIDE, such as:

1. The boy walked with a manly stride.
2. In one short stride, he reached the window.
3. Shea's testimony threw the defense off stride.
4. When he's got into his stride, I am sure his work will improve.
5. They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of STRIDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stride
 n.  step; pace; significant progress
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  Why, the height of a man, in nine cases out of ten, can be told from the length of his stride.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  I had this fellow's stride both on the clay outside and on the dust within.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  Well, if a man can stride four and a-half feet without the smallest effort, he can't be quite in the sere and yellow.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4  Prince John struck his forehead with impatience, and then began to stride up and down the apartment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  Every stride of the horses and every turn of the wheels was taking us nearer to our supreme adventure.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
6  The animal has been moving, and we have the length of its stride.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
7  You can see for yourself that anyone going out through that open window could reach the front doorstep by taking a long stride.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
8  He came up the walk with the springy stride of a savage and his fine head was carried like a pagan prince.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  I wouldn't be satisfied to entertain like the Welly Brys; I'd want something that would look more easy and natural, more as if I took it in my stride.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
10  She felt that she could run on all night, leap twenty feet at a stride.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  But in the morning he would get up and shake himself, and stride away again to battle with the world.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  His musket bounced a trifle from his shoulder at each stride and made his cap feel uncertain upon his head.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  On the march he went along with the stride of a hunter, objecting to neither gait nor distance.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
15  One might say that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more speedily.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
Example Sentence:
1  The trivial upsets of daily living assume importance but the big tragedies they take in their stride.
2  In one short stride, he reached the window.
3  The boy walked with a manly stride.
4  Shea's testimony threw the defense off stride.
5  When he's got into his stride, I am sure his work will improve.
6  Some people find retiring difficult; but he has taken it all in his stride.
7  The conquering hero didn't simply stride down the street; he used to swagger.
8  They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field.
9  An explosive growth of international trade, combined with recent strides in telecommunication and information technology, has given rise to the global village.
10  It is particularly an issue for those that have made large strides in industrial development, the sector of the economy that tends to consume the most energy.
11  It is an issue for those that have made large strides in industrial development: the sector of economy consumes the most energy.