How to Use ride out in a Sentence

ride out

phrasal verb
  • And then have the discipline to ride out the ups and downs.
    Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • Mike O’Hara Cortez, 36, rode out the hurricane alone on a yacht.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • What would lead you to pull into harbor and ride out a storm?
    Ryan Weissmueller, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • That can lower your risk and ride out the market’s inevitable ups and downs.
    Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 11 Oct. 2023
  • But Sporting regained control of the match’s flow and appeared to do enough to ride out the win.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The couple chose to ride out the storm at home but left once the water started coming.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Or just go with the flow and ride out the rip current, saving your energy for the swim back to shore.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Officials are warning locals to stay off the streets to ride out the storm.
    Julianne McShane, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • While in Paris, carve out a day to make the short train ride out to Champagne for a day of sipping on the world’s finest bubbles.
    Deanna Taylor, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
  • About a guy who doesn’t say much, has a bit of a squint, a questionable moral compass, gets the girl and rides out of town at the end.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Small and regional banks hold 80% of the debt and may not be well-positioned to ride out a crisis.
    David Faris, The Week, 21 June 2023
  • But Better needs money to ride out the mortgage downturn.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Giants decided to ride out some bad contracts last year and left Daniel Jones with one of the worst receiving corps to throw to.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Reeds and mangroves line the shores on the rides out from the lodge, barely moving in the absence of heavy breeze despite the birds nimbly balanced on their tips.
    Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Charter your own boat or hop aboard the Yankee Freedom ferry for a ride out to paradise.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Lost and found Koenig, her mother, husband and two dogs went to a nearby hotel to ride out the tornadoes on March 24.
    Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Timberlake also scored 19 points, none bigger than his late 3 and free throws to help Kansas ride out the win.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • As cinders rained around her, the woman tried to flag down people driving past to get a ride out while staying on the line with the dispatcher.
    CBS News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Palestinian civilians such as Ashqar are abandoning hope of finding any haven to ride out the war.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • It is said that those who heed his warnings will ride out the storm safely with their property undamaged.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3 May 2024
  • His parents ran a grocery store and managed to ride out the economic meltdown after the stock market crash of 1929.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Their farm animals — Delilah, a pig; Comet, a miniature donkey; and Star, a miniature horse — were battened down in their pens and rode out the storm safely.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Huddling and resting in the shallow, turquoise waters near grassy riverbanks and mangrove trees, the manatees are riding out the cold.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • One of the victims rode out of the moving debris and turned to see the other snowmobile rider partially buried with his feet in the air and head below the debris.
    USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Surviving the past couple years has meant not just riding out a crisis, but several waves of them.
    Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • Two female shrimp workers are still living in tents outside the boatyard near the dock, choosing to ride out the weather to stay close to their community.
    Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2023
  • Homes without a basement should have an interior safe room where residents can ride out the storm.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2023
  • So far, the Chinese leadership appears ready to batten down the hatches, ride out the turmoil and focus on long-term bets to control the technologies of the future.
    Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For long-term investors who can afford to ride out this period, these issues may not matter much for your portfolio down the road.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Other groups did the same, pulling corals from offshore and putting them into tanks, creating a sort of Noah’s Ark of genetic diversity to ride out the heat wave.
    Alie Skowronski, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024

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