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

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

That there gentleman," said Mr. Ashman, in a broad provincial dialect, "couldn't get astride that chair when he come here half-an-hour ago.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

Compton responded, and in a few strides was so near that he flung himself forward in an effort to get astride the animal's back.

From In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Glanville, Ernest

It told of your trying to get astride a bronco, and it was a struggle.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann