Dictionary Entry
To walk with long steps.
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Poetry examples for “strode”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The slowly-fading mistress of the world,
Strode in, and claimed their tribute as of yore.
But Arthur spake, `Behold, for these have sworn
Read full poem →Of ladies living gave me this to bear.'
So stalled his horse, and strode across the court,
But found the greetings both of knight and King
Read full poem →Then strode a good knight forward, crying to him,
'A boon, Sir King! I am her kinsman, I.
Read full poem →Then strode the brute Earl up and down his hall,
And took his russet beard between his teeth;
Read full poem →He spake: the Prince, as Enid past him, fain
To follow, strode a stride, but Yniol caught
His purple scarf, and held, and said, 'Forbear!
Read full poem →The sallow-faced man appeared in the entrance and
strode through the midst of it to the desk. Bomb! The
fearful report snuffed out the revel and the dame tum-
Read full poem →The sallow-faced man appeared in the entrance and
strode through the midst of it to the desk. Bomb! The
fearful report snuffed out the revel and the dame tum-
Read full poem →A tall woman, with her long white gown aflow
As she strode her limbs amongst it, once more
She hastened towards the room. Did she know
Read full poem →Turned nervously and took the soldiers in,
Then strode ahead. The emperor was stunned
To hear an American soldier use a knife