Sentence examples for rather than strides from inspiring English sources

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Whether he's writing about birding, reading, media, the Internet, the American novel, his past as an angry young man or his present as a misanthrope trying to learn to relax the tendons in his neck, Mr. Franzen lumbers rather than strides.

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But if that happens, they will have ambled in the new direction, rather than striding there purposefully.

Appearing as a guest on This Is Your Life, she had to sit through the programme, rather than striding on from the wings to be recognised by the subject.

In a production that takes refuge in pared-down naturalism, there could have been some effort to get her to walk in a convincing small-step Japanese way, rather than striding around the stage, and the coquettishness in her opening exchanges with Pinkerton is entirely out of place.

The characteristic lateral inclination of the trochlea directs the radius laterally during the stride and pushes the body sideways and forward, resulting in a scuttling rather than striding movement.

Not only that, Arsenal failed to pick up three points as well as any kind of momentum, continuing the impression that this is going to be a season characterised by continual stumbles rather than purposeful strides.

Take short, careful steps rather than long strides.

They tend to be lonely guys at the tail end of a divorce and in a dead-end job, who stumble into the trouble — usually by accident, occasionally from lust — rather than boldly striding toward it, à la McGee.

Such is the dominance of the automobile in this country that states are forever inching their way, rather than taking bold strides, toward getting a grip on unsafe behavior.

If your dog is taking short, mincing steps with their back legs, rather than long, easy strides, this may indicate he is experiencing pain or discomfort in his hips.

The US was a magic country where strangers liked me on the strength of my voice alone, unlike cold anonymous London where, rather than break their stride, pedestrians would blankly step on your face if you were dying on the pavement, quietly tutting at the blood on their shoes.

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