Example sentences for: stride

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

  • 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.

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

  • This show indicates that only in the last third of this century have designers really hit their stride with varieties of shoe material, shoe shape, shoe trim, and shoe attachment.

  • The 19 th century British gardener Gertrude Jekyll was the first to suggest pairing ferns with daffodils, pointing out that just as the daffodil foliage begins to brown and die back, the fern hits its stride and covers the mess.

  • When he shall escape his present confinementhe will stride about the world destroying all with his sharp beak.Whatever opposes him in the streets of the city shall go down.


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