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
Then seeing a fine large butterfly on a dandelion close by, he climbed up and managed to get astride it.
From English Fairy Tales by Arthur Rackham
Brought my heart into my mouth to see the big devil raging, and I began to yearn to get astride him and to—well, just fight to see which of us would come out on top.
From Trailin'! by Max Brand
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 Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop
It told of your trying to get astride a bronco, and it was a struggle.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
