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

‘Spartacus’ Kirk Douglas doth bestride the screen like Colossus as the titular gladiator turned rebel leader in Stanley Kubrick’s epic 1960 historical drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

He might just as well bestride his metaphysical Rosinante and hunt the "Ding an Sich" of Kant since it is in the last analysis nothing else than this which stands behind the undiscoverable bridge.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels

Amazon is a behemoth that bestrides several economic sectors.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

The curator of “Sanguine/Bloedrood” is Luc Tuymans — the artist who bestrides Antwerp’s scene today as Rubens did four centuries ago, though his paintings are as cool and color-sapped as Rubens’s are showy and saturated.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2018

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2015

Today he bestrides the town like a colossus. 

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 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

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

He knows the pedigree of every horse on the place, and has bestrid the great-great-grandsires of most of them.

From Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving

Neuer bestrid a Horse saue one, that had A Rider like my selfe, who ne're wore Rowell, Nor Iron on his heele?

From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

These Warriours on a sort of Coursers rid, Ne’r log’d in Stables, or by Man bestrid.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

He was sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended, in what was a stunning fall from grace for a former president who once bestrode the world.

From Reuters ● May 17, 2023

Before he bestrode the continent and prefigured the ghastliness of modern European history — religious impulses sublimated in politics — Napoleon Bonaparte was an artillery captain.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2022

Mount and the Weasel, leather-clad, and gay with quilled moccasins and brilliant thrums, journeyed afoot, on either side o' Shemuel, who bestrode a little docile ass.

From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

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

Forbes was a West-Pointer, a cavalryman, and the horse had not made more than one pirouette before he understood that he was bestridden by one whom it was best to obey.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

Josephine had bestridden the sash of her window.

From The Exploits of Juve Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales by Émile Souvestre

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

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

“We have a royal family that befits the idea of an empire bestriding half the globe,” said Alan Rusbridger, a former editor of The Guardian.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2020

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

Now, it seems, the fashion industry is embracing the male curl, with tousle-headed models bestriding the catwalks of the men’s equivalent to London fashion week.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016

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