bestride
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For much of his second term, Trump has seemed to bestride the globe, lavishing his attention on a wide range of international issues.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026
‘Spartacus’ Kirk Douglas doth bestride the screen like Colossus as the titular gladiator turned rebel leader in Stanley Kubrick’s epic 1960 historical drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
It is a rare feat for a civil-rights luminary, even on the local level, to bestride generations, as the dearly missed U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2020
Solar panels are being nailed to rooftops, colossal wind turbines bestride the plains and oceans, and a million electric vehicles are on U.S. roads — and it isn’t enough.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2018
He liked the appearance of the steel-grey mustang; and had become inspired with an insatiable longing to bestride it.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
Amazon is a behemoth that bestrides several economic sectors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
If Mr. Driver bestrides “Burn This” like a colossus — could he really be only 6-foot-2, as Wikipedia has it? — everyone else seems to shrink beneath his shadow when he’s onstage.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
The U.S. remains immensely powerful, but it no longer bestrides the world like a colossus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2015
As a politician Hillary Clinton bestrides the landscape like a colossus.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2015
Wearing embroidered palikari vest, puffy-sleeved poukamiso, and pleated foustanella skirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway- He pauses a moment to look out at the audience, but the bright lights blind him.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I bestrid A Porcupine that never prickt.
From Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Thomas Potts
These Warriours on a sort of Coursers rid, Ne’r log’d in Stables, or by Man bestrid.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones
To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Hermes the winged Horse bestrid, 70And thorow thick and thin he rid, And floundred throw the Fountaine.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
He bestrode a web of personal connections that deeply influenced intellectual life in mid-19th-century America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Casemiro, a sad and fading shadow of the great player who bestrode Real Madrid's midfield through their Champions League glories, simply strolled out.
From BBC ● May 12, 2024
He bestrode the tabloid newspapers and craved headlines and front pages.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
He was sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended, in what was a stunning fall from grace for a former president who once bestrode the world.
From Reuters ● May 17, 2023
Sacred Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, the radiant redeemer of mankind, who descended out of pity on a sinful world, bestrode Typhon, the grinning spirit of evil.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime British Prime Minister, said last week: "I have never bestridden a bicycle because I have no balance of that sort."
From Time Magazine Archive
Methinks I have bestridden something that hath galled me extensively.
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish
Many a time and oft have I bestridden horses that had been peacefully pasturing, and ridden them bare-back around the fields, in a kind of Buffalo Bill style, you know.
From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
He had bestridden the nervous pinto and Molly was “acting up.”
From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe
Compare your description with this from Stevenson: "The town came down the hill in a cascade of brown gables, bestridden by smooth white roofs, and spangled here and there with lighted windows."
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
Indeed, many historians and political experts say that as the 106th mayor of New York, from 1990-93, Dinkins suffered by comparison with the Gullivers bestriding him.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2020
It seems long ago that she was wielding her symbolic handbag of power in Parliament and bestriding the world stage as the Iron Lady of a still-great peacetime Britain.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2019
THE only media mogul still bestriding his industry in old-fashioned style is used to being a predator rather than prey, a builder of empires, not a dismantler of them.
From Economist ● Nov. 23, 2017
Leaning forward, cranium bulging, he is presented in the Soviet style, bestriding the world from his humble park bench.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012
Unlike the suffering, earthbound Christs depicted at eye level on the church walls, our Christ Pantocrator was clearly transcendent, all-powerful, heaven- bestriding.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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