How to Use bide in a Sentence

bide

verb

• Chase Smith had to bide his time.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
• And then there are the hot players that are biding their time.
  — Evan Clark, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
• Geisler had to bide her time to get noticed in the Bears' program.
  — Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2020
• Liam is the sort of character who bides his time, waiting for his chance.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2023
• Brown and Murray weren’t content to bide their time or wait their turn.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2022
• Others bided their time, returned on leave and ran away from their base.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• There are certain books that bide their time, like plants, waiting decades to flower.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 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
• Or bide your time waiting in the front room where there’s a more casual drink and snacks menu.
  — Esther Tseng, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 June 2025
• Will Pogacar and Vingegaard show their hand here, or bide their time for tougher days?
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
• As much as young players and their fans may not want to hear it, biding your time can be fruitful.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• Norby is far from the only prospect biding his time in the minors.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2023
• Deng Xiaoping had warned his colleagues to lie low and bide their time.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• Tom Thibodeau’s team is one biding time for its stars to return to form.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
• As cars began stopping behind the crosswalk, the hawk seemed to bide its time.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
• Thousands of families bide their time in hostels, or in tents along the beach.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Right now, both the Rockets and Wall are happy to wait and bide their time.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 4 Oct. 2021
• Most sat at green picnic tables shaded by white canopy tents, biding time.
  — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2025
• The Barracuda’s forwards, though, might need to bide their time.
  — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• The Red Sox, for a while, were one of the teams wringing its hands and biding its time.
  — Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
• Umberto was very patient and bided his time until a seam opened up.
  — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Kroenke had to bide his time before launching his master plan in Denver.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 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
• But that is simply a matter of putting the work in and biding your time for your body to develop.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
• Grass seeds can bide their time, waiting for the right conditions to germinate.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
• While Italy and France have spent years in the limelight, Spain was biding its time.
  — Jon Yeomans, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
• Morningstar also thinks investors may be better off biding their time.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 8 June 2026