get astride
Example Sentences
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Advancing rapidly, they entered the capital's suburbs, prepared to cross the Han River and get astride the communications to the south and the rear of the enemy's army around the Pusan perimeter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Compton responded, and in a few strides was so near that he flung himself forward in an effort to get astride the animal's back.
From In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Glanville, Ernest
The Eleventh, under General Erdelli, was to act along an 11-mile front from a point north-west of Tarnopol, and to get astride the railway which leads from Tarnopol through Zloczow to Lemberg.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
It told of your trying to get astride a bronco, and it was a struggle.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann
That there gentleman," said Mr. Ashman, in a broad provincial dialect, "couldn't get astride that chair when he come here half-an-hour ago.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice
