stride

[straɪd]

Definition:
1. A step in walking or running.
2. The distance covered by a step.
3. Walk with long steps.
4. Cover or traverse by taking long steps.

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Use 'stride' in a sentence:

1. Try shortening your stride when you run.
2. Walk with a purposeful stride, with your back straight and with your head held up high!
3. Her brother, Buckley, takes the sightings more or less in stride.
4. Each of them has a different stride and a unique expression.
5. Brandt is hitting his stride now.
6. He lengthened his stride to keep up with his father.
7. As a programmer, my first behavioral test lets me hit my stride.
8. He's still learning and when he hits his stride, he'll be unstoppable.
9. In a big stride he came out of the room.
10. Suddenly, he pulled up sharply in his stride, and fell to the floor.
11. And to this stride I had got accustomed.
12. It's important to take failure in stride and keep your spirits up.
13. He knew well how to rule, he knew how to stride with confidence.
14. Social media backers take that ignominious episode in stride.
15. He walked with long strides.
16. But herders take bad years in stride.
17. Shorten your stride.
18. Let us join hands to stride towards such a goal.
19. Increasing the force in your stride will make your running feel easier.
20. This remarkable invention represents a tremendous stride forward in the education of the handicapped.
21. If someone pokes fun at your mattress on the floor, or teases you about your empty cabinets, smile and take it in stride.
22. They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field.
23. Schellenberg took that news in stride while continuing to cast a skeptical eye on the research in his field.
24. Beth was struck by how Naomi took the mistake in her stride.
25. Will you never learn how to rule, how to stride with confidence?
26. Now I take criticism right in stride.
27. She began to walk faster, but he lengthened his stride to keep up with her.
28. I was gaining on the other runners with every stride.
29. With every stride, runners hit the ground with up to five times their body-weight.
30. With practice, you’ll soon take these emotions in your stride.
31. He took the ridiculous accusation in stride.
32. The country has made enormous strides politically but not economically.
33. The nation's electronics industry made important strides this year to even up its balance of trade.
34. He strides around the room beaming like a crazy man.
35. The campaign is just getting into its stride.
36. An area in which the computer has made considerable strides in recent years is in playing chess.
37. He would stride on stage then proceed to coax the sweetest possible sounds out of his violin.
38. Music critics have consistently defined James P. Johnson as a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920's Harlem "stride" style, and an important blues and jazz composer.
39. Johnson is a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920s Harlem "stride" style, and an important blues and jazz composer.
40. She did not slow her stride until she was face to face with us.
41. We're making great strides in the search for a cure.
42. She came striding along to meet me.
43. He set off with a loping stride.