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• I hung the coat in the cupboard and bided my time.2023, Susie Boyt, “Hot under the collar: the coat of your dreams”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd. From the entry cupboard
• An unaspected planet bides its time and then emerges, often explosively and seemingly out of character.2018, Judy Hall, The Astrology Bible. From the entry loner
• Zecond thing: what 'st think volk 'ud want to bide and hark to such vlother vor!1922, Samuel Robinson Littlewood, Somerset and the Drama, page 89. From the entry vlother
• No, she disna, she bides at the tother end o' the road.1906, “The Auld Lads of Corrievreckan”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 145. From the entry disna
• 'Bide here,' he says, 'and boil the wine till I return.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry ploy
• The object is to bide your time.2021, Dorian Sykes, The Good Life Part 2: The Re-Up. From the entry tabletop
• If your finished drink tastes like a children’s vitamin, it’s wrong, and it’s a hangover biding its time.2019 May 9, Rebekah Peppler, “The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Aperol spritz
• And my biding was making me bitter.2007, Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand. From the entry biding
• What a laughable request the bride urges so earnestly !—to wit, that her kicky-wicky may bide cosily at home.1909, W. J. M. Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, Macmillan and co., page 209. From the entry kicky-wicky
• 'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry thought
• Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry reputed
• There are times, Machiavelli concedes, where it might be more advantageous to be cautious and bide one's time in order to ascertain the dispensation of the goddess more clearly.2019, Andrew Herman, The “Better Angels” of Capitalism, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry bide one's time
• We bided a moment as the push we were part of moved forward and took the opportunity to slip deftly back through it, thus shabbing off from our prey.2017 February 23, Jake Arnott, The Fatal Tree, Sceptre, →ISBN. From the entry shab
• The brains and the hammers are still on the Clyde, but as long as British shipowners reckon small coal consumpts far above records he must bide his time.1999, Brian D. Osborne, Ronald Armstrong, Mungo's City: A Glasgow Anthology, page 174. From the entry consumpt
• Into it, he slowed and stiffened still more, as though he waded through a holding action, biding till the curve and then the forestretch where he could be faster.1969, Quarterly Review of Literature, volumes 16-17, page 423. From the entry forestretch

Meaning of bide

1. verb To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
2. verb To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
3. verb To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.

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How do you use bide in a sentence?

Bide is used as a verb. For example: “John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.”

What is a short sentence with bide?

“'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he.”

What does bide mean?

Bide means to bear; to endure; to tolerate.