bade

Example Sentences

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He wasn’t ready for Catherine O’Hara to go, nor Rob Reiner, who bade Idle a poignant farewell at a recent L.A. party.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

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

But he, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray reunited on Sunday as the French Open bade an emotional farewell to its 14-time champion.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

But Zeus looked at him sternly and told him he was as intolerable as his mother, and bade him cease his whining.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton