Sentence examples for a smooth stride from inspiring English sources

Kolehmainen ran with a smooth stride, holding his arms high and twirling them in an unusual motion; he trained hard and observed a vegetarian diet.

In his first appearances on the international scene it was often said that, at 6ft 5in, he had trouble with his starts because he needed to arrange his gangling limbs before hitting anything like a smooth stride.

Richie Migliore, the rider on Albert the Great, reported that "we bounced out of the gate perfectly," and added: "He really has a smooth stride once he gets going.

It hasn't always been a smooth stride to assimilation but hey, who's to say we haven't had some good times?

He was running weird changes and curves, jumping octaves with the smooth stride of an Olympic hurdle-racer.

And Gryder offered this jockey's lament: "She ran hard and had such a smooth, galloping stride.

His jumping will need to be sharp, but The Midnight Club has a likable, determined attitude and a smooth, effortless stride which sees him cover maximum ground at the expense of minimum effort.

When Prado finally asked Birdstone to go, the colt unleashed a smooth paddlewheel stride that Prado aimed like a boat captain to the widest part of the river, the middle of the track.

Mr. Long, 42, a New York City firefighter and a former triathlete and competitive marathoner, once had a smooth, swift stride himself, but he was critically injured when he was hit by a chartered bus as he was biking to work during the transit workers' strike in December 2005.

We shuffled about on grass to get the feel of the skis, then moved on to a path to practise "double poling" (keeping the skis parallel and using the poles to propel yourself along), "skating" (going from side to side, like ice-skating) and "classic" (a smooth forwards stride).

Late in the second period, when Florida's Mike Sillinger appeared to have a step on Niedermayer during a rush down ice, Niedermayer caught up to him with a smooth skating stride and poked the puck away before the Panther forward could shoot.