get astride
Example Sentences
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Advancing rapidly, they entered the capital's suburbs, prepared to cross the Han River and get astride the communications to the south and the rear of the enemy's army around the Pusan perimeter.
From Time Magazine Archive
But—you'll excuse me, I must ride a notion when I get astride of one—St. Hospital would be no more than what we call an episode.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The Eleventh, under General Erdelli, was to act along an 11-mile front from a point north-west of Tarnopol, and to get astride the railway which leads from Tarnopol through Zloczow to Lemberg.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
It told of your trying to get astride a bronco, and it was a struggle.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
Brought my heart into my mouth to see the big devil raging, and I began to yearn to get astride him and to—well, just fight to see which of us would come out on top.
From Trailin'! by Max Brand
