bestride
verb (used with object)
to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
was bestriding
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past progressiveof bestride.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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If things were as United believes they should be, and England’s biggest club was bestriding the Premier League like a colossus, then the hiring of an executive would be little more than a footnote.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
When he was bestriding the nation, Gershwin was the most modern guy around; 82 years later — guess what? — he still is.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019
Nic drew a deep breath, and wished that he was bestriding a donkey on the common near the Friary, with his schoolmates looking on instead of his father.
From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by L. Rahey
When I was first introduced to her "behind the scenes," she was bestriding a chair, and smoking a pink cigarette, and she addressed me as mon petit.
From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
They hemmed him in in front, behind, and at the sides, while he himself was bestriding a broken-down nag with empty and open holsters, and the hilt of his sword securely tied to its sheath.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
