bade

Example Sentences

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Some visitors were pictured sobbing as they bade the bears goodbye.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

Both are alarmed by the sudden reappearance of a Frenchman nicknamed Beast, to whom they’d each bade goodbye years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

With two blasts of its horn, MV Hebridean Isles bade farewell as it left the quay at Stornoway for a final time on Sunday, bound for Glasgow before it goes to the breakers.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024

The first couple of times Rio bade Agatha farewell, her parting words were “te veo.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2024

Then Éowyn bade those that served to fill the cups, and all there assembled rose and drank to the new king, crying: ‘Hail, Éomer, King of the Mark!’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien