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 wondered whether he would ever again bestride a fiery steed, and go bounding along over the plains, as had been his wont.
From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Gordon Stables
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
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
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
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
The U.S. bestrode the world like a colossus, and manufacturing was central to our dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 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
But all the books were not for circulation; a Poetry and Reference Shelf bestrode my end of the counter.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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
He had bestridden the nervous pinto and Molly was “acting up.”
From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe
In this race three horses outdistanced all the others; the great bay ridden by Colonel Washington, a snappy little gray bestridden by the colonel's boy bugler, and my own mount.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
As if in answer to the echoes, there suddenly appeared hundreds of skeleton stags, of enormous size, each bestridden by a skeleton hunter.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
At the same time Cully places himself beside that bestridden by Roblez.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
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
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
Leaning forward, cranium bulging, he is presented in the Soviet style, bestriding the world from his humble park bench.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012
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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