Example sentences for: stride

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

  • And high up, the Post reports, without breaking stride, that the campaign's other new changes include "an updated wardrobe."

  • Only after European fashion hit its stride in the 16 th century, with women flaunting sculptured curls, rouged cheeks, and exposed chests in public, did the veiled Arab lady begin to look so alien, so alluring, and eventually so infuriating to Western sensibilities.

  • Crowds of humble mortals stride the pavements down below while, three or four stories above, on the façades of buildings, a very different crowd of carved stone beings, the Olympian gods and goddesses, throng the upper air, in clear illustration of the dualistic character of all existence: mortals below, immortals above, flesh here, stone there; the ever-changing, the everlasting.

  • In The Crossing McCarthy hits his stride in dialogue in colloquial Mexican Spanish and does himself proud.

  • But Turkey had taken a great, stumbling stride towards 'modernity,' towards the unprotected free-market economy which the European Union enforces on nations hoping to join it."


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