bestridden
- past participle of bestride.
Example Sentences
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James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime British Prime Minister, said last week: "I have never bestridden a bicycle because I have no balance of that sort."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I should like to ride with you, Edgar, but it is years since I have bestridden a horse."
From A March on London by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
In front marched the five hundred elephants, each bestridden by an officer of rank, and led by Hemu, on his own favourite animal, in person.
From Rulers of India: Akbar by Malleson, George Bruce
The presence of a ship’s topsail-yard thus bestridden plainly proclaimed that a ship had been wrecked—although no other evidence of the wreck was within sight.
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
He had bestridden the nervous pinto and Molly was “acting up.”
From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Marlowe, Amy Bell
