bestriding
- present participle of bestride.
Example Sentences
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Bestriding the stage with the growl of a lion shaking off last night’s Ambien dose, the Mangler vows that we will be “delighted, astounded and amazed.”
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2023
Bestriding them all are the roughly 100 members of the International Olympic Committee.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2016
Bestriding the world, I. T. & T. was, in 1929, in excellent position to flounder and be lost in a violent world-wide storm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bestriding a very tall war-horse he played the game of a military athlete with accomplished skill.
From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas
Bestriding his stallion, the strand-watchman answered, The doughty retainer: “The difference surely 30 ’Twixt words and works, the warlike shield-bearer Who judgeth wisely well shall determine.
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Hall, Lesslie
