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

And I have been told that I do not sit elegantly, that I do not appear to be part and parcel of the horse I bestride.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables

New Zealand, noted for its gorgeous geography and modest population of 5 million, bestrides an important geostrategic location between the South Pacific and Antarctica.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The animal under him was strong, courageous, and speedy; but Carrington knew he would have need of all those sterling qualities if he hoped to escape the iron-hearted horse Taylor bestrode.

From The Ranchman by Charles Alden Seltzer

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 whip-lash path, running perilously along the cliff-edge towards Elne, was broken by no slowly-crawling white speck, the mule bestridden by Don Jordy, Notary Episcopal of the ancient See of the Bishops of Elne.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

Mr. Finsbury,” he said aloud; and Michael, without rising, turned upon him a countenance somewhat flushed, encircled with the bush of the red whiskers, and bestridden by the spectacles.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange as it may seem, it is very light upon the horse, which is also bestridden by the postilion, or calisero.

From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou

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

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