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
It told of your trying to get astride a bronco, and it was a struggle.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann
I've little enough gratitude and quite enough scheming to get astride of your shoulders.
From Modeste Mignon by Balzac, Honoré de
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
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
