RIDE in a Sentence

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For RIDE, below is one of 274 sentences:
She decided to ride to the Fontaines' first, not because they were the nearest neighbors but because old Dr. Fontaine might be there.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ride
 v.  climb up on the body
 v.  sit and travel on the back of an animal
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Why, waiting for me to take a ride.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  I kinder knew I'd want to take a ride to-night, Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  They had known her for years, and, since their childhood, she had been a favorite playmate, for she could ride horses and climb trees almost as well as they.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their Europe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  They had sorely missed the excitement of the drills while away, and they counted education well lost if only they could ride and yell and shoot off rifles in the company of their friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  She had wanted him, in that first instant, wanted him as simply and unreasoningly as she wanted food to eat, horses to ride and a soft bed on which to lay herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  The urgent need of a wife became clear to him one morning when he was dressing to ride to town for Court Day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  And she thought with a tingling in her heart how she and Ashley might ride swiftly through this beauty of blossom and greenery this very afternoon, or tonight by moonlight, toward Jonesboro and a preacher.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  Except on rare occasions she always wore her riding habit, for whether she rode or not she always expected to ride and in that expectation put on her habit upon arising.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  You must ride over and see him, Mr. O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  Pa, please ride behind us or in front of us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Perhaps I am too old to march but not to ride and shoot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  And even if you reached Jonesboro safely, there'd be a five-mile ride over a rough road before you ever reached Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  She decided to ride to the Fontaines' first, not because they were the nearest neighbors but because old Dr. Fontaine might be there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  They had a horse now and they could ride instead of walk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
16  Many companies did not manage to ride out the recession.
17  Maybe I can ride the bicycle and follow you.
18  The luxury model gives a smoother ride.
19  The new model offers a lovely smooth, comfortable ride.
20  Be wary of strangers who offer you a ride.
21  The ruling party think they can ride out the political storm.
22  If you can't ride your bike to the top of the hill, you'll have to push it up.
23  The bill is in for a rough ride in the Senate.
24  Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
25  She learned to ride when she was seven.
26  My last bus ride on the Latin American expedition was already the beginning of a return to familiar locations.
27  Dan and Jordan must ride the Singapore Flyer observation wheel until their capsule is at the very top, which is 541 feet.
28  However, her main forte is the young readers 'novels, where children ride out their own adventures with minimal adult help.
29  In order to enable the ship to ride safely through the storm, the captain had to jettison much of his cargo.
30  Rhett bought his daughter a pony to ride on.