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Example sentences for "ride"

Lexicographically close words:
riddle; riddled; riddles; riddling; riddy; rideing; riden; ridente; rider; riderless
  1. Jenny, being unused to ride much on horseback, was sadly tired by her day's journey, and very glad when bed-time came.

  2. The horse awaits your good pleasure, and will only be less proud to bear you than I shall to ride before you.

  3. There was no coach to ride in; and very humiliated she felt when Dorothy Campion gave her a smart blow on the back as she went down the churchyard.

  4. I have also a double tricycle, on which I ride every morning with my garden boy.

  5. By his advice I took the same resolution, and as nobody in Penrith would ride the brute, he was left to grow still wilder in a green field whilst I went on to Scotland by the train.

  6. As Cocote was not always unfit for work--only at intervals--her master decided to buy a horse that he might ride when the pony could manage the carriage work.

  7. In the evening went to Autun on Cocote; enjoyed the ride considerably.

  8. The only way in which it was possible to ride the brute I possessed was in putting him behind a carriage, which he followed as if he had been tied to it.

  9. Six persons could thus ride comfortably in the carriage, and as we were expecting a visit from Mr. T.

  10. The effects of these refreshments could not fail to be evident as we returned home; and it was more by good luck than anything else, except his habitually excellent horsemanship, that he was able to ride at all in that condition.

  11. I have indeed stiffened myself to ride a horse, a mightier feat than driving him because of the tallness of the monster and his uneasy movement, as though his legs were not well socketed and might fall out on a change of gaits.

  12. They look like the iron firemen that ride on nursery fire-engines.

  13. If time still spares him, that horse I could ride with content.

  14. In such circumstance my happy nightmare mounts until I ride foremost with the giants.

  15. Often I ride on a bus top like a maharajah on an elephant, up near the tusks, as it were, where the view is unbroken.

  16. After all your talk, you're goin' to let that slave-driver ride roughshod over you?

  17. Yours ben't the first case that have happened, my lad, and you'll ride easier next time.

  18. You must ride back up the hill if you want he; and even so, I doubt he'll have to knock up the folks at Hall to get at the keys.

  19. I'll have her ready saddled for him, if he'll promise to ride steady and mind the sore 'pon her near shoulder.

  20. For my own part, I couldn't ride because--well, because it hardly would do for a regimental commander to so far forget himself as to go in for anything of that sort.

  21. Why, we all ride, and ride well; all except the adjutant.

  22. Where should Sheridan's ride and Paul Revere's little trip be classed beside that?

  23. He says I can stand the ride in ten days or two weeks, but neither of your wounds has healed yet.

  24. He told me back there at Boonsboro' that he would ride right over to camp--time I was going back with the colonel through the Gap.

  25. I never could induce him to hang, or teach him to ride on horseback.

  26. It was at the close of the month of March, that the sheriff succeeded in persuading his cousin and her young friend to accompany him in a ride to a hill that was said to overhang the lake in a manner peculiar to itself.

  27. I had made arrangements for a ride to introduce you to something of a very important nature.

  28. But how often have I seen him leave his home, where the sick and the hungry felt, when he left them, that they had lost their only earthly friend, to ride on a duty which could not be neglected for domes tic evils!

  29. More than thirty years since a very near and dear relative of the writer, an elder sister and a second mother, was killed by a fall from a horse in a ride among the very mountains mentioned in this tale.

  30. Benjamin will make a good deputy; he has been naturalized, and would answer admirably if he could only ride on horseback.

  31. Once," he went on, "white man ride a mule across river where these fish live.

  32. When they reached the face of this cliff it appeared again, zigzagging up a great precipice, and so narrow that the party had to ride in single file.

  33. Seated on its summit, the scientist showed them the street where, during the Festival of the Sun, the Inca would ride along a pavement made of ingots of silver on a horse whose mane was strung with pearls and whose shoes were of gold.

  34. The bullocks had a very hard pull, more especially as my men were obliged to ride across the gun wagons.

  35. Although still feeling ill from dysentery I tried not to make much of it, but I could no longer ride my horse so got on a wagon.

  36. When you reach it, ride for your life," she said.

  37. Without more words they parted, Jim to ride swiftly back for help, and young Sanderson to push on up the trail with his eyes glued to it.

  38. Baldy will never ride the round-up again.

  39. Then, catching sight of Cuffs on the porch of the house, Yeager issued orders sharply: "Get on my horse and ride like hell for Doc Brown!

  40. He saw nothing of Phyllis, save for a distant glimpse or two when she was starting to school or returning from a ride with Larrabie Keller.

  41. From her window Phyllis saw them ride away, and persuaded herself that she was glad.

  42. Yes, but I expect you don't like to ride with me so awful much.

  43. It suited Buck's ironic humor to ride beside the girl who had just attempted his life.

  44. Think I'll beat you out of that ride with the schoolmarm to-day, my friend.

  45. Home, I reckon; but I'll ride with you to Seven Mile if you don't mind.

  46. There was room for two abreast, and he chose to ride beside her.

  47. Men and women do not ride or drive from thirty to fifty miles without expecting to drink the last drop of pleasure there may be in the occasion.

  48. It seemed to Larrabie that it would be a wonderful thing if they might ride back through the warm sunlight with this new miracle of her love in his life.

  49. Have I got to explain to you why I do or don't ride a certain horse, seh?

  50. We'll be in time for supper, and you can ride home afterward.

  51. You'll ride your Carnegie horse and I'll walk.

  52. If the camp moves, she may not ride a horse, but is mounted on a mare.

  53. Now," said Murray, "unless you wish to ride half a mile in order to get back, you must cross it again.

  54. In this case matters stood, when one day Woodward, having dressed himself with particular care, ordered his horse, saying that he would ride over to Beech Grove and pay a visit to the Goodwins.

  55. There in that corner is the very broomstick she used to ride through the air upon!

  56. I shall ride over there, now, and it will not be my fault, if I don't tip both her and them the saccharine.

  57. Woodward rode slowly, as he indulged in those disagreeable reflections to which we alluded, until he reached a second crossroads, where he found himself somewhat at a loss whether to turn or ride straight onward.

  58. As it was hardly dark by seven-thirty, in October and early November, it was no more hazardous for the two girls to walk or ride down to the Square than it would be in the daytime.

  59. We kin give them a ride--a joy ride fer us," harshly laughed Andy.

  60. At Four-Mile-Blaze where the girls were well-nigh lost on their first ride over the trail, there now was a good but narrow bridle-path.

  61. There was no planned order in riding; first one girl would have one of the escort, and then another would ride up and "cut in" to urge the other onward.

  62. That ride will show Polly lots of sights: the Flat Iron Building, Riverside Drive and the Hudson, and heaps of things.

  63. I prefer to ride whenever possible a horse that really takes some managing.

  64. I ride him and the mare on alternate days.

  65. He said he was going to play the "Ride of the Valkyries," and explained what Wagner meant to convey by that wild, stormy music.

  66. To one who could ride home at night, as he invariably did, after some twelve hours of hard and continued drinking, without rolling from his horse, it would not be difficult to enact the sober man in its earlier stages.

  67. The ride will afford you more subject for diversion than anything we can furnish here.

  68. The New York-Philadelphia run is a capital one, and can be made if the trip is taken at easy stages, as we have described it, by any one who can ride a wheel.

  69. Of course, any one may ride in a vestibuled train in our country by simply paying a few dollars, but in Europe it takes a king of strong will power to obtain such luxury.

  70. The young lawyer decided to ride that wave as far as it would take him.

  71. She traveled the road at breakneck speed, I opened the gates and saddled the steed; "Ride free!

  72. He knew when to defer and when to ride roughshod to his end.

  73. At El Cedral we were told that there were ruins intact, and we made arrangements at once to ride over there.

  74. He is certainly a most attractive mount: a superb animal, yet quiet to ride and drive.

  75. Those who could not ride found satisfaction sufficient for their senseless mirth in running behind and shouting.

  76. So the strike is over: labour is scarce in Rio Blanco for a week or so; and Trepoff-Martinez travels back to the capital to ride his fine Arab in Chapultepec Park and spend his evenings at cards in the Jockey Club.

  77. You shall dress yourself as my groom, and I will ride to the frontier, and you shall ride behind me, and thus you may get safe away.

  78. That you may ride back to the castle--alone?

  79. Mr. Blackwell, then 80 years old, used to rise early in the morning and take a trolley ride of thirty or forty miles in various directions to enjoy the beauties of nature.

  80. At the close of this very interesting session the convention enjoyed an automobile ride to see the beautiful city and its environs, tendered by the St. Louis Equal Suffrage League and under the auspices of Mrs. Philip B.

  81. During several hours spent in Tacoma they had the famous ride around the city in special trolley cars, supper at sunset on the veranda of a hotel overlooking the beautiful Puget Sound and a walk through the magnificent park.

  82. The delegates will look out upon the placid waters of the Indian Ocean and will ride to and fro from their meetings in rickshas drawn by Zulus in the most fantastic dress imaginable, the chief feature being long horns bound upon the head.

  83. At the close of the afternoon session the delegates enjoyed an automobile ride of many miles amidst scenery which many who had travelled widely declared was unsurpassed in the whole world.

  84. In some of our western States we have already seen what the women can do and the day will come when they will vote with us just as they read with us, talk with us, ride with us and consult with us.

  85. A visit to the Albright Art Gallery and an automobile ride along the lake front, through Delaware Park and the many handsome avenues of the city, was a much-enjoyed part of this afternoon's program.

  86. He saw her smile and slip money into the man's hand who was ordered to ride behind the coach.

  87. She should not walk, he said, through the dust and heat of the noonday; Nay, she should ride like a queen, not plod along like a peasant.

  88. Meanwhile, commercial flying opened on May 8th (the official date was May 1st) with a joy-ride service from Hounslow of Avro training machines.

  89. The following year I commenced the work on a larger scale, by engaging aeronauts to ride my aeroplane dropped from balloons.

  90. We ran about fifty-seven miles an hour, a whole compartment to ourselves; remarking it “was the pleasantest long ride that we had ever taken on a railroad train.

  91. As we started on our trip to Ober-Ammergau we were filled with the thoughts of the great and only Passion Play, and found our daylight ride from Munich to Ober-Ammergau, through the German Alps, one panoramic view of loveliness.

  92. All I can say is that when he starts splittin Im goin to set a new rekord down these dug out stairs wether Angus is there to ride on or not.

  93. Didnt you hear me order nobody to ride on any of the carriages?

  94. As soon as he saw I was comfortable he says "Smith, you ride on the end caisson an watch the brake.

  95. Let them ride by stream and forest, moor and mere!

  96. Of this he seemed in great need indeed, being thoroughly exhausted from the long ride and the enervating emotions through which he had passed since receiving the fatal summons.

  97. Francesco saw the black horseman ride up the bank and join those who waited.

  98. A negative gesture was slowly followed by the words: "I do not ride with you.

  99. Let them ride in quest of your lost one, ride like the wind!

  100. He should have liked nothing better than to mount his steed on the spot, ride single-handed into Anjou's camp and redeem his honor in the eyes of those who regarded him a bought instrument of the Church.

  101. A ride of some five miles lay between them and the Cape of Circe.

  102. His followers brought up the rear, and, choosing a winding forest path scarcely wide enough for two to ride abreast, the singular cavalcade cantered into the golden vapor of the wood.

  103. She did not go to her nook in the woods, but after her morning ride she wrote in her room until luncheon.

  104. The morning after his return to Menlo he awoke with a confused sense that he should be late for his morning ride with Magdaléna.

  105. Couldn't we have a walk or ride somewhere to-morrow early--out to the Presidio?

  106. To dance and picnic and tennis and ride to the hills, exactly as she had done when quite another person!

  107. XXI Magdaléna did not see Trennahan alone again; he did not ask her to ride with him on the following morning, and left for town immediately after breakfast.

  108. As they were returning, he said to her,-- "You say you ride before breakfast.

  109. I have not the objection to you ride all you want it with Mr. Trennahan, si you not go outside the place.

  110. My daughter, no must ride alone with the gentleman.

  111. At all events, I shall give myself the pleasure of riding over on Monday evening, and hope that you will join me in another ride on the following morning.


  112. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ride" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abut; aggravate; airing; annoy; auto; badger; bait; banter; beset; bestride; bicycle; bike; bother; bristle; bug; bus; chaff; chauffeur; continue; cycle; deception; deride; devil; discompose; disturb; dog; drift; drive; entrain; exasperate; excursion; exercise; float; foot; get; ghost; glide; gripe; harass; haze; heckle; hound; intimidate; jape; jest; joke; jolly; kid; lap; lie; lift; molest; motor; motorcycle; nag; needle; nettle; outing; overlap; overlie; override; pan; pedal; perch; persecute; pester; pick; pickup; pillory; pique; plague; pother; provoke; pursue; rag; rally; recline; rest; rib; ride; ridicule; rile; roast; roll; ruffle; run; sail; scud; shingle; shoot; skim; slip; spin; straddle; stride; taunt; taxi; tease; torment; turn; twit; vex; wash; way; weather; wheel; whirl; worry


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ride away; ride back; ride from; ride herd; ride home; ride over; ride upon