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
No Jim Brown, the scourge of defensive backs and Black Power avatar bestride a motorcycle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 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
You’ll never bestride another pony on this ranch.
From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe
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
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
That horse, that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse, that I so carefully have dress'd!
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He knows the pedigree of every horse on the place, and has bestrid the great-great-grandsires of most of them.
From Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving
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
The U.S. bestrode the world like a colossus, and manufacturing was central to our dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 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
Her limbs bestrode the prostrate nations to the extremities of the earth; her head lowered to the clouds, whilst the right hand of the gigantic monster brandished a burning torch.
From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Logan Mitchell
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
Sure, such a horse for slipping from under one was never bestridden by man.'
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Finsbury,” he said aloud; and Michael, without rising, turned upon him a countenance somewhat flushed, encircled with the bush of the red whiskers, and bestridden by the spectacles.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Methinks I have bestridden something that hath galled me extensively.
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish
While so employed, he could not help reflecting that the nag was just a trifle too good to be bestridden by a secret police-agent.
From The Day of Wrath by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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
Now, it seems, the fashion industry is embracing the male curl, with tousle-headed models bestriding the catwalks of the men’s equivalent to London fashion week.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016
Barely two feet tall, it is the humble ancestor to every monstrous welded metal assemblage bestriding today’s urban landscapes.
From Economist ● Sep. 24, 2015
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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