WADE in a Sentence

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For WADE, below is one of 40 sentences:
There was a long rivulet in the strand and, as he waded slowly up its course, he wondered at the endless drift of seaweed.

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 Meanings and Examples of WADE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wade
 v.  paddle; walk through relatively shallow water
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Ten times a night they talked of going out to soak themselves with the hose and wade through the dew, but they were too listless to take the trouble.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Jurgis would have to wade through it to get home, and if it was late he might easily get stuck to his waist in the mire.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
3  'Twould be, indeed, a bloody path for such tender feet to wade in," returned the equally reluctant scout; "but I thought it befitting my manhood to name it.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
4  Presently, without a parting word, Joe began to wade off toward the Illinois shore.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  More than once she had to wade for a bit, with twenty cannibals splashing around and pushing.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
6  About two o'clock in the morning the raft grounded on the bar two hundred yards above the head of the island, and they waded back and forth until they had landed their freight.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  He hoped the boys would stop, but they still waded slowly on.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  I followed a half a mile; then he struck out over the swamp, and waded ankle deep as much as another half-mile.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
9  As I entered Nimes, I literally waded in blood; at every step you encountered dead bodies and bands of murderers, who killed, plundered, and burned.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
10  I waded with what haste I could, and swam in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
11  I then took off my spectacles, and waiting about an hour, till the tide was a little fallen, I waded through the middle with my cargo, and arrived safe at the royal port of Lilliput.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
12  When the ships came up, I stripped myself, and waded till I came within a hundred yards off the boat, after which I was forced to swim till I got up to it.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
13  She waded down stilly cloisters between burnt stump and icy oak, through drifts marked with a million hieroglyphics of rabbit and mouse and bird.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  She waded a streaky yellow pool.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  There was a long rivulet in the strand and, as he waded slowly up its course, he wondered at the endless drift of seaweed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  The river was full but we managed to wade across.
2  They don't just listen sympathetically, they wade in with remarks like, 'If I were you.
3  I wish you wouldn't always wade in with your opinion.
4  I can't wade in these boots.
5  She tucked up her skirt and waded across the stream.
6  We waded across a shallow stream.
7  They waded the river at a shallow point.
8  He waded into the water to push the boat out.
9  I waded knee-deep in its dark growth; I turned with its turnings, and finding a moss-blackened granite crag in a hidden angle, I sat down under it.
10  The water was turbid after the children had waded through it.
11  After we had waded through all the verbiage, we discovered that the writer had said very little.
12  My favorite seat was a smooth and broad stone, rising white and dry from the very middle of the beck, and only to be got at by wading through the water; a feat I accomplished barefoot.
13  No safe wading in an unknown water.