Strides is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRIDES in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRIDE, to walk with long steps
• walk with long, decisive steps in a specified direction
• walk about or along (a street or other place) with long, decisive steps
• cross (an obstacle) with one long step.
• bestride
NOUN:
• a long, decisive step
• the length of a step or manner of taking steps in walking or running
• a step or stage in progress towards an aim
• a good or regular rate of progress, especially after a slow or hesitant start
• trousers.
• denoting or relating to a rhythmic style of jazz piano playing in which the left hand alternately plays single bass notes on the downbeat and chords an octave higher on the upbeat

Words related to STRIDES

stridden10 stride7 striding10 strode7

Words that contain STRIDES

bestrides12 outstrides11 overstrides15

How to use STRIDES in a sentence

• Turned into the room with short, hasty strides, then back again.
• His pursuer gained on him with great strides, and in his hand he carried a bare knife.
• These six trod with mighty strides the long and dusty road that is named the Way of the Damned.
• They are a wonderful people and are making swift strides to the front in every direction.
• He seems to have made three stumbling strides, to have raised and dropped his huge mace, and to have clutched his chest.
• With a violent effort, and covering his eyes, he set himself to run, made, perhaps, twenty strides, then slipped on a boulder, and fell.
• The time approaches with rapid strides when I must make up my mind.
• So she sped on like a deer, glancing back occasionally to see the stranger following her with rapid strides which, however, did not avail to overtake her.
• In three strides he had reached the rear platform, and a fourth to the right-hand railing showed him one of the car-boxes blazing to heaven.
• She was so busy thinking that she forgot to continue her game and walked quietly ahead, keeping up with the longer strides of the warriors by occasional little runs forward.
• With long strides he hurried along the bark road which wound round the contour of the hills.
• The lover knows that there is peril in the path, but not the less joyously he strides on by the side of the beautiful queen.
• Then with a few quick strides he advanced to the alcohol lamp.
• For the first time he felt the keenness of the moonlit air, and shivered in it, notwithstanding the hasty strides which he now was taking homeward.
• She walked slowly round the table, and pausing at the window gazed from it in idle thought, until she saw the figure of her son advancing with rapid strides toward the house.
• He ran easily, as though accustomed to that mode of travel, and his long strides covered a couple of miles in short order.
• Pepin approached her with what he evidently intended to be dignified strides.
• With a few big strides Koku was beside the picture man.
• In the field of portraiture Giorgione must have made rapid strides from the very first.
• I saw corruption rushing on with hasty strides, too shameful to be defended, and too powerful to be resisted.
• He paused for neither path nor way but went straight for the school, running in mighty strides, yet gently, listening to the moans that struck death upon his heart.
• In another ten strides he reined up Bayard, turned, and came back at a walk.

Similar words containing STRIDE without suffix s

stride7 astride8 strider8 bestride11 strident9 striders9 bestrides12 outstride10 postrider12 stridence12 stridency15 outstrides11 overstride14 postriders13 stridelegs12 stridences13 stridently14 strideways17 outstrided12 overstrides15 stridencies14 stridelegged16

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