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

He turned sideways to try and get astride, looking the other way.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

He led it here, and you just ought to have seen the brute dance and make ugly eyes when first Albert and then I tried to get astride of it.

From Lady Betty Across the Water by Lowell, Orson

Likewise, if I don’t get astride a cayuse mighty soon, I won’t be able to climb onto him at all.

From Shoe-Bar Stratton by Gage, George W.

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)