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

‘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

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

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

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

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

No man ever bestrode a more generous beast than you.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge

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

A horse, they said, was something that they personally had never bestridden.

From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner

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

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

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

If things were as United believes they should be, and England’s biggest club was bestriding the Premier League like a colossus, then the hiring of an executive would be little more than a footnote.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2024

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

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