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
‘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
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
No mere intimation of immortality, Dr. Alexander’s memoir carries the audacious title “Proof of Heaven” and, at time of writing, it bestrides the New York Times best-seller lists like a Colossus.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2012
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
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
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
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
He bestrode a web of personal connections that deeply influenced intellectual life in mid-19th-century America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
The animal he bestrode was of a coal-black, and, like his master, bore his years well.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
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
Compare your description with this from Stevenson: "The town came down the hill in a cascade of brown gables, bestridden by smooth white roofs, and spangled here and there with lighted windows."
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
Methinks I have bestridden something that hath galled me extensively.
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish
A wide and stiff ruff encircled her neck, a cap of the finest muslin, though rather dingy, covered her head; and her nose was bestridden by a pair of gold- bowed spectacles with enormous glasses.
From An Old Woman's Tale (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
In front marched the five hundred elephants, each bestridden by an officer of rank, and led by Hemu, on his own favourite animal, in person.
From Rulers of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
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
Misaki Kawai But here is Arty, the gigantic, candy-colored creature wedged between pillars like a colossus bestriding the gallery at the Children’s Museum of the Arts.
From New York Times ● Mar. 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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