bestride
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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
He seemed to bestride it as we could imagine Alexander bestriding his Bucephalus.
From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Amazon is a behemoth that bestrides several economic sectors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
If Mr. Driver bestrides “Burn This” like a colossus — could he really be only 6-foot-2, as Wikipedia has it? — everyone else seems to shrink beneath his shadow when he’s onstage.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
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
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
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
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
Hermes the winged Horse bestrid, 70And thorow thick and thin he rid, And floundred throw the Fountaine.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
The U.S. bestrode the world like a colossus, and manufacturing was central to our dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 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
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
Meanwhile Ulenspiegel bestrode the back of Jef through the lands and the marshes of the Duke of Lunebourg.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
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
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 Mayne Reid
Byram came in to rehearse the opening processional and to rebuke his dearest foe, the unspeakable “camuel,” bestridden by Mrs. Horan as Fatima, Queen of the Desert.
From The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
Then at the fourth opening, the pale horse, bestridden by Death, went mournfully abroad.
From The Thread of Gold by Arthur Christopher Benson
But then a Hollywood movie star — who was also a uniquely magnetic performer on the musical stage — rode into town, bestriding a vehicle perfectly suited to his outsize talents.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 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
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
THE only media mogul still bestriding his industry in old-fashioned style is used to being a predator rather than prey, a builder of empires, not a dismantler of them.
From Economist ● Nov. 23, 2017
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
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