bestride

For much of his second term, Trump has seemed to bestride the globe, lavishing his attention on a wide range of international issues.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

No Jim Brown, the scourge of defensive backs and Black Power avatar bestride a motorcycle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

It is a rare feat for a civil-rights luminary, even on the local level, to bestride generations, as the dearly missed U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2020

Solar panels are being nailed to rooftops, colossal wind turbines bestride the plains and oceans, and a million electric vehicles are on U.S. roads — and it isn’t enough.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2018

Tököly hastened to bestride his horse on hearing that his adversaries had been a little beforehand with him, and, putting spurs to his horse, galloped rapidly away.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai

He bestrides a real estate empire worth $25 billion, according to Forbes, a portfolio that includes 56 cottages, 12 homes and seven palaces.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

Amazon is a behemoth that bestrides several economic sectors.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

The U.S. remains immensely powerful, but it no longer bestrides the world like a colossus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2015

As a politician Hillary Clinton bestrides the landscape like a colossus.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2015

Wearing embroidered palikari vest, puffy-sleeved poukamiso, and pleated foustanella skirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway- He pauses a moment to look out at the audience, but the bright lights blind him.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres.

From Time Magazine Archive

And I bestrid A Porcupine that never prickt.

From Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Thomas Potts

That horse, that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse, that I so carefully have dress'd!

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

That horse that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse that I so carefully have dressed!

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

He bestrode both the old California and the new.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Some people waiting in food lines say they miss the leadership of a man who bestrode the island in his trademark green military fatigues and whose memory still looms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Casemiro, a sad and fading shadow of the great player who bestrode Real Madrid's midfield through their Champions League glories, simply strolled out.

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

He bestrode the tabloid newspapers and craved headlines and front pages.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

We can fancy him sitting one of those splendid horses he so magnificently bestrode.

From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton

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

For in the dark of the morning, when he had bestridden his donkey and given the order for his caravan to march, he was hailed by Luttrell's voice.

From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

"The colossal figure which for fourteen centuries had bestridden the Indian continent vanished suddenly, like a rainbow at sunset."

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

At the same time Cully places himself beside that bestridden by Roblez.

From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

In a moment they were under cover of the bush and safe out of shot, but in that moment I had recognised the steed bestridden by the hindermost one.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford

Byrne, who last visited Broadway in 2016 with “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” appears at ease on the stage, bestriding it as easily as another man might stroll his own patio.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Indeed, many historians and political experts say that as the 106th mayor of New York, from 1990-93, Dinkins suffered by comparison with the Gullivers bestriding him.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

It seems long ago that she was wielding her symbolic handbag of power in Parliament and bestriding the world stage as the Iron Lady of a still-great peacetime Britain.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2019

Barely two feet tall, it is the humble ancestor to every monstrous welded metal assemblage bestriding today’s urban landscapes.

From Economist ● Sep. 24, 2015

Unlike the suffering, earthbound Christs depicted at eye level on the church walls, our Christ Pantocrator was clearly transcendent, all-powerful, heaven- bestriding.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides