bestride
verb (used with object)
to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
have bestrode
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present perfectof bestride.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Put the case that Mr. Irving had been five feet high—Would he ever have been heard of, or, as he does now, have "bestrode the world like a Colossus?"
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
Roger had assented to the change, for his own horse was as unlike one that a monk would have bestrode as could be well imagined.
From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Ralph Peacock
And therefore he chose rather to ride upon an ass when, if he had pleased, he might have bestrode the lion without danger.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
It had been a fine moment to have bestrode one of the winds which piped around me, offering, no doubt, some compact from Lucifer.
From Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by William Beckford
