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How to use bide in a sentence

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A lady sitting at a desk wore an expression that told her to sit down and bide her time, so that was what she did.
Over clear pools, that solitude must bide, await your sowing like a holy bride, to cast off widowhood when you draw near.
That there are dark undertones to everything, that bide their time and lie in wait for the unfortunate and unwary.
He wanted them to wait and bide their time until something really big and juicy came up at the right price.
I'll bide my time, wait for the weather to improve and for my strength to build up.
If you know Hawthorne's story, it's an intriguing detail, a fascinating invitation to bide awhile and think.
We will be back with another bill, and we will bide our time and find the opportunity to present that bill to both the House and the Senate.
Most times, you have to play for the middle of the green, bide your time and wait for a chance to be aggressive.
Its small pleasures bide time quite well before the film segues into a more action-packed finale.
The bloodthirsty Young Turks of Bohane bide their time, waiting in the shadows to shank and supplant their revelry-addled elders.
You'd be wiser to bide aboard while I have a word with a tailor I know.
They quite rightly don't want to be seen to be desperate for an acquisition, and are apparently willing to bide their time, waiting for the right opportunity.
I often tell people who are troubled by their perception of the unfair actions of others, or systems, that all they have to do is bide their time and watch and wait.
But he'd already discovered that appearing too much out of character would raise serious suspicions, so he had to simply bide his time and wait for the opportunity.
So I continued to bide my time, hoping, waiting, praying for salvation.
You have to bide your time, strike when the moment comes and then bide your time again and stay calm.
You have to be wary of the players you're up against, bide your time and attack only at certain moments.
One is to be cautious: run with the race favorites, bide your time, and then make a move in the final third.
China really only has to bide its time, then steel will be produced there and no longer in Europe.
They are going to bide their time until these foreign busybodies have left.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But bide ye, ye shall hear what cam o't, and how far I am bund to be bedesman to the Ravenswoods.
Too awful it is for an aged man to bide and bear, that his bairn so young rides on the gallows.
In sooth, it is bad for those who fall, but worse for those who bide behind.
Was't less feeling, or more strength of body, enabled me to bide at the Tower wharf with dancey?
An' zo a zed a 'oodden bide yer no longer, fur ef a did her'd never let un gwo.
Take a look at it now, if you will, for hereafter we'll let it bide and rankle as it must.
I want nothing in the world but what is honest, so make the agrement as you like, and I'll bide by it.
If we bide here, who knows that some fresh tumult may not break out.
Ye should bide longer in old scotia and learn her history and her people.
It is, indeed, a rare and heartsome place to bide in on a summer's day.
Why do you bide by the fire, seeing that it is so hot, noma?
Nay, here I must bide, so I went out of the cave to the spring which flows from the rock on the right yonder and washed my wounds and drank.
Here I am, and here I bide, while God gives me strength to lift a sword.
The springs of laughter flow not from his heart, Where bide the dust and glamour of old days.
Here I must bide, and talk and sew and spin, and spin and sew and talk.
My faither said I was to bide in the house and mind my wark.
The nervous, excitable soprano could not long bide in one place.
She canna bide to be contred an' Pu'd this gait and that gait.
He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.
Good, quiet, uncomplaining mother Nature, long slighted and miscalled, still bide, her time and draws to her bosom the most errant of her children.
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