ride out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.84 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, out.
Example Sentences
- "In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves."
- "Following chaos on Wall Street yesterday, and in which Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs became the latest US financial institutions to come under fire, the chancellor attempted to reassure the public that Britain could ride out the crisis."
- "“We have a chance to ride out this Omicron wave without shutting down our country once again,” Mr. Johnson said at an evening news conference […]"
- "And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which even his monarch brother reportedly doesn’t know how he pays for), joshing away at family funerals, and just sort of … riding it out, each time another of his lies about this story is exposed."
- "Let's ride out and see what we can get into."