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How to use wade in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Wade means to walk through water or something that impedes progress. Example: “We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.”

Examples of wade by meaning

verbTo walk through water or something that impedes progress.

  • They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp....

verbTo progress with difficulty.

  • to wade through a dull book

verbTo walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.

  • wading swamps and rivers

verbTo gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.

  • It's rain afoor meeght, t'sun waded sadly ez sha peeped ower Roseberry.1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 486

verbTo enter recklessly.

  • to wade into a fight or a debate
  • It's an old gag because a blind man can see he ain't glassy-eyed a-tall—but Rodzinsky wades in. 10.QxR1940 January, "Cauliflower-Face Flaherty" (real identity unknown), “Muscle over Mind”, in Chess Review

nounAn act of wading.

  • We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.

More sentences with wade

  • The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.From the entry wading
  • This synopsis saves me from having to wade through a pile of textbooks.From the entry wade through
  • The Federal Reserve is under pressure to wade in with an emergency interest-rate cut.From the entry wade in
  • I spent all day wading through paperwork.From the entry through
  • He waded out, the stream eddying around his legs.From the entry eddy
  • Wade looked into his girlfriend's teary eyes.From the entry teary
  • They waded further up the rith.From the entry rith
  • Wade and ushered in a wave of draconian abortion laws in mostly red states across the country.2026 March 12, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, “One thing voters agree on: They don’t like the Supreme Court”, in The Boston Globe, retrieved 22…. From the entry shadow docket
  • She got out and began to wade through the blanket of powder which cottoned the ground.2018, Sara Saint James, Trust the Night. From the entry cotton
  • The most primitive was wading into shallow water and collecting the mussels by hand.2012, Lisa Knopp, “Mississippi Harvest” (chapter 3), in What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte…. From the entry pollywog
  • Wade argues that our pre-gracilized ancestors lived in a world closer to Hobbes than Rousseau.2011, JH Hinshaw, “Darwinian Evolution and Social History”, in Journal of Social History, volume 45, number 1. From the entry gracilized
  • Tourists, students, Parisiens and Parisiennes waded up and down the spacious square’s treed sidewalks.2009, Rob Addison, chapter 1, in The Hands of Time, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry Parisien
  • I'd be wading in scummer if it wasn't for works like these.2009, Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2, page 498. From the entry scummer
  • We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies.2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241. From the entry brolga
  • I waded out, my hair streaming water down my back, my toes gooshing deliciously in the mud.2006, Evelyn Vaughn, Grail Keepers Duo, page 71. From the entry goosh
  • Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.2005, Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas, page 144. From the entry biceps
  • Mum waded though Red's excitement with a tea-towel in one hand and a Pimm's in the other.2005, Tango Wayne, Hidden Treasure, page 93. From the entry cucumberless
  • Mum waded though Red’s excitement with a tea-towel in one hand and a Pimm’s in the other.2005, Tango Wayne, Hidden Treasure, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry Pimm's
  • Wading angler (above) is about to lip lock a chunky black bass.1990, Mark Thiffault, Illustrated Guide to Better Fishing, page 9. From the entry lip lock
  • As you wade about, watch for the rapidly swimming portunid crabs that abound in sandy shallows.1988, Eugene H. Kaplan, Peterson Field Guides: Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores, page 25. From the entry portunid
  • I waded in near the rocks and lit the fuse - and whoomph!1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67. From the entry whoomph
  • So much is obvious, perhaps, to anyone who has the time to wade through the Amphitryonic literature.1939, Collection Latomus, page 135. From the entry amphitryonic
  • "Time to get a move on," he said, and began unlace his boots for wading.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139. From the entry get a move on
  • "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading.1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XIV, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 143. From the entry tap
  • Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch.2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August…. From the entry e
  • But he loves taking pictures of all critters, he said, and noticed a stand of flamingos wading in a salt pond.2014 March 12, Matt Davenport, “Carmel man snaps photo of rare black flamingo”, in Monterey Herald, archived from the original on 01 Aug…. From the entry stand
  • The forces of the law waded in mob-handed when, it seems, they ought to have applied a lighter, more consensual touch.2014 September 5, Boyd Tonkin, “Ashya King showed we still don’t know the limits of liberty”, in The Independent. From the entry mob-handed
  • Survivors waded through a horror show of corpse-filled waters.2014 December 26, Fakhrurradzie Gade, “Countries mark 10 years since Indian Ocean tsunami”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 18 Jun 2015. From the entry horror show
  • Wade?” With a sheepish look, Clete swept his hat off.2010, Yvonne Harris, The Vigilante's Bride, page 57. From the entry is your head cold
  • Wade Hampton was to the manor born.2008, H. W. Crocker, III, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry to the manor born
  • Besides, the bevy of silicone beauties surrounding him would have been difficult, not to mention ego-crushing, to wade through.2006 09, Anne Thomas Soffee, Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L. A., Chicago Review Press, →ISBN…. From the entry silicone
  • Their work directly exposed them to enteritis and dysentery—so much so that they were sometimes literally wading in blood and feces.1989, John Higginson, “Copper, Community, and Death”, in A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise…. From the entry nightsoiler
  • There have been bitter cold days wading in northern Montana reservoirs at ice-out while hungry rainbows wolved down Wooly Worms.1988 March 13, Eric Wiltse, “Winter fishing wardrobe goes high-tech for best results”, in The Sun Herald, volume 104, number 165, Biloxi…. From the entry wolve down

Meaning of wade

  1. verb To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
  2. verb To progress with difficulty.
  3. verb To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.

Full definition of wade

Questions about wade in a sentence

How do you use wade in a sentence?
Wade is used as a verb and noun. For example: “We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.”
What is a short sentence with wade?
“wading swamps and rivers”
What does wade mean?
Wade means to walk through water or something that impedes progress.

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