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

He rested for a time and then gave himself another hoist and was able to get astride the bowsprit.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman

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

We floundered about like porpoises, but managed to get astride her backbone, when dad looked kind of scornfully at me, and burst out with, 'Sonny, do you call yourself a keerful sailor?'

From Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5 by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)

How Helen longed to put on her riding clothes and get astride a lively mount and gallop up the park-way!

From The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City by Marlowe, Amy Bell