How to Use bide in a Sentence

bide

verb
  • Geisler had to bide her time to get noticed in the Bears' program.
    Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Right now, both the Rockets and Wall are happy to wait and bide their time.
    Rahat Huq, Chron, 4 Oct. 2021
  • And then there are the hot players that are biding their time.
    Evan Clark, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
  • And then there are the hot players that are biding their time.
    Evan Clark, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
  • For his part, and for most of that way, Sandman was biding his time in the back of the nine-horse field.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Haskell has a cannon for an arm and the legs to bide him time on the field to make plays with his receivers.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Wall will not play and will bide his time until a buyout.
    Rahat Huq, Chron, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Brown and Murray weren’t content to bide their time or wait their turn.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The patience to bide his time behind Frank Gore as a rookie.
    Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2019
  • In his first scene, Tom buys Logan a watch for his birthday; a sign of the man biding his time.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
  • Liam is the sort of character who bides his time, waiting for his chance.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2023
  • Shannon had booked a few nights in a motel to bide time while Jeremy looked for a new place to camp.
    Author: Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2021
  • Shannon had booked a few nights in a motel to bide time while Jeremy looked for a new place to camp.
    Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • Shannon had booked a few nights in a motel to bide time while Jeremy looked for a new place to camp.
    Author: Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2021
  • Norby is far from the only prospect biding his time in the minors.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, there was a chance that he would be taken back in by his owners, so Crawford had to bide her time.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • One game has a tendency to bleed into the next as the best teams bide their time before the playoffs.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Tom Thibodeau’s team is one biding time for its stars to return to form.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Thousands of families bide their time in hostels, or in tents along the beach.
    New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Deng Xiaoping had warned his colleagues to lie low and bide their time.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • There are certain books that bide their time, like plants, waiting decades to flower.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Talking on phones or walkie-talkies: Some hunters bide their time in stands playing games on their phones or surfing the web.
    Star Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Others bided their time, returned on leave and ran away from their base.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • In his first 15 seasons with the Dodgers, Kershaw could have bided his time to prepare for the next encounter with Moreno at third.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The ghosts of those massacred lived on, and some of the children and grandchildren of the slaughtered would bide their time, waiting to fight once again.
    Christopher Dickey, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Another sloppy performance that doesn't bide well for the Tar Heels over the long haul.
    Paul Newberry, ajc, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Jimmy Butler Role was: To bide time until the playoffs.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2024
  • For now, the new Bulls brain trust only can bide its time until the NBA decides on a starting date for next season.
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The console has been among the hottest tech products this year, as families stuck at home due to quarantine turned to video games to bide the time.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Kroenke had to bide his time before launching his master plan in Denver.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2025

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