Example sentences for: rode

How can you use “rode” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A collage of Bill Gates costumed as a Medici together with Michael Eisner outside a fairytale castle represents the way "culture rode the coattails of money" in the Renaissance and in the 1990s.

  • So Jesse is a pro wrestler by trade, did nameless Apocalypse Now stuff in 'Nam as a Navy Seal, and rode with the Mongols Motorcycle Club for nine months.

  • This is a company that: 1) has been a consistent money loser for almost its entire existence; 2) has constructed an entire business around the highly questionable proposition that people will overpay for mediocre food in order to sit next to the motorcycle that Bruce Willis rode in Pulp Fiction ; and 3) is spending large sums of money to pay an executive to live in Hollywood and build relationships with up-and-coming stars.

  • On a December day in 1917, British General Allenby rode up to Jaffa Gate and dismounted from his horse because he would not ride where Jesus walked; he then accepted the surrender of the city after the Ottoman Turks had fled (the flag of surrender was a bed-sheet from the American Colony Hotel).

  • The battle started last summer when prodigal mogul Mike Ovitz rode back into town, founded AMG, and proclaimed his intention to reinvent "the architecture of the industry."


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