Synonym: pace, step, walk. Similar words: strident, trident, ride, rider, pride, bride, ride on, deride. Meaning: [straɪd] n. 1. a step in walking or running 2. the distance covered by a step 3. significant progress (especially in the phrase "make strides"). v. 1. walk with long steps 2. cover or traverse by taking long steps.
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(61) He has also taken the responsibilities of team skipper in his stride.
(62) While he does not take his Olympic loss in stride, he does learn from adversity.
(63) A stride piano pattern in the left hand then underpinned exploratory, unresolved figures, which eventually evolved into Take the A-Train.
(64) She was concentrating on the speed and length which her stride might attain as she hurried up the long slope.
(65) Soon the drivers are in their stride and enjoying every minute of it.
(66) In full stride in the 400 meters, his head is arched back, his step shorter than the classic sprinter.
(67) He'd got to stride out on to the field as though he hadn't a care in the world.
(68) Rut the Europa took it in its stride, sucking itself to the tarmac and slicing through.
(69) As a choreographer, though, he had only just begun to hit his stride.
(70) I was very impressed with our position, but Peter just took it in his stride.
(71) If this book has a significant weakness, it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride.
(72) The longer stride actually slowed his progress by 30 percent, exactly as the model had predicted.
(73) I powered up gradually, settling into an easy, long-paced stride that got my lungs working properly and readied my legs.
(74) In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride.
(75) But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump.
(76) She'd lost some weight and seemed to move with a quicker stride.
(77) Actually the best bit was the giant stride in, which was about fifteen feet high.
(78) The chestnut tossed his head and mouthed the bit, but his stride was smooth and easy.
(79) Well, it took a lot to put Jimmy out of his stride.
(80) She noticed his long, powerful legs, the immaculate cut of his close-fitting breeches, his purposeful stride.
(81) He had walked away from Sophie and now she lengthened her stride to catch him up.
(82) He's usually able to deal with anything life sends his way without breaking stride.
(83) Forces that can be up to five times your body weight on each stride.
(84) When Stride Rite was earning $ 100 million pretax,[www.Sentencedict.com] it was doing it by selling product that has since been abandoned.
(85) By half-past three, when their lessons were normally over, Hugo felt he was getting into his stride.
(86) Furious with myself for these creeping insidious thoughts I focussed on lengthening my stride and levitating the rucksack.
(87) Taking no chances, he avoided them both in one long stride.
(88) The work had scarcely got into its stride before it was interrupted by the outbreak of the Wars of Independence.
(89) How lucky Dmitri was to be able to stride on stage and become some one entirely different.
(90) If you snip off one leg of a cockroach, it will shift gaits with the other five without losing a stride.
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