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

Attracted to the roof, with this expectation in full force, men saw the unhappy animal holding on to it, and writhing in agony to get astride one of the iron ribs.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

I was so deeply impressed by this phantasmagorical marching past that I almost expected to see Death go up behind a gunner or get astride a cannon.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle

He cannot get astride a horse without its going off and winning a steeplechase against the favourite. 

From The Angel and the Author, and others by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Then seeing a fine large butterfly on a dandelion close by, he climbed up and managed to get astride it.

From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur