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

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

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

Bo mounted without a helping hand, but Helen's limbs were so stiff that she could not get astride the high Ranger without assistance.

From The Man of the Forest by Grey, Zane

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