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

From the window of my room I saw the doctor get astride his mule.

From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Sabatini, Rafael

By reaching up, and summoning the remnant of her strength, she was able to clasp it, to put a foot over, to get astride.

From The Plow-Woman by Gates, Eleanor

"Well, that's all right, Phronsie," he said, coming back to get astride the railing again; this time he turned a cold shoulder on Phronsie's "white needle."

From Five Little Peppers Abroad by Sidney, Margaret

There were two things he could not and would not do, and they were, to get astride a horse or to walk for the sake of walking.

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Ward, Leslie