bade
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood said it had been a "privilege and honour" to have been welcomed into viewers' homes for 28 years, as she bade an emotional farewell to BBC Breakfast.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 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
She summoned an old nurse, Eurycleia, who had cared for Odysseus from babyhood, and bade her wash the stranger’s feet.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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