How To Use Bestride In A Sentence
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That proportion does not necessarily include all the oligarchs, who may in any case not be as important as the corporate bureaucracies they bestride.
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He gets on your bestride personally, face his leg, palmar touchdown is propped up with making.
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Though it does not yet quite talk the talk of "digital first" – looking forward, like the Journal Register group in the US or the Guardian here in Britain, to the days when dead trees are left to lie and paperless news organisations bestride the net – it is, nevertheless, envisaging a certain sort of future: one where everything changes, everything is up for grabs.
New York Times bows to Mail Online – for now
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He may not be a political colossus but he bestrides Scotland with an absolute and unchallenged power.
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After waiting impatiently for the full moon, Gilbert at last went out one night to work the charm, and to his great delight, had no sooner bestrided the ragwort, and said: "Up!
Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale
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But it is my father I see against the landscape of my mind—the monarch bestride the world, fighting for all that he believed in no matter what the cost.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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Next to them, he is George Washington bestride the cherry tree.
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A pair of dark-rimmed spectacles bestrided her forehead midway, appearing more for ornament than use.
Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
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He was in the impossible position of he who bestrides a tiger and is uncertain whether he should dismount, a deeply unhappy man.
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He is one man that has bestride the political corridor like a colosus without base.
Hadassah Lieberman under attack over industry ties
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America's media companies bestride the globe.
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When the chips and the toilet seats are down, alpha males still bestride the political stage.
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Wearing embroidered palikari vest, puffy-sleeved poukamiso, and pleated foustanella shirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway.
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Passing one very bad spot several yards in length, the heart of one of the party somewhat failed him, so he bestrided the shoulders of a mountaineer; but, when half way, he found himself overhanging a precipice of several hundred feet, with a path of a few inches wide, and the hill man tottering beneath him.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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The chaebol bestride both the country's economy and its society.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth.
Apocrypha « BAHAY TALINHAGA
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The history of private-sector market dominance is filled with such seemingly sudden disappearing acts: Big-box music retailers and bookstores were supposed to bestride the land like colossi at the turn of our new century, but Virgin megastores have all but disappeared, and Borders has just gone bankrupt.
Death of the Duopoly
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Quixote’s horse; — in all other points, the parson’s horse, I say, was just such another, for he was as lean, and as lank, and as sorry a jade, as Humility herself could have bestrided.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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The royal horseman bestrides a warlike steed, which is trampling under foot the figure of a turbanned Turk.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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I move, I have the power of movement, I command movement of the live thing I bestride.
Chapter 36
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America's media companies bestride the globe.
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But after we had retired to rest and were sound alseep, my two sisters arose and took me up, bed and all, and threw me into the sea: they did the same with the young Prince who, as he could not swim, sank and was drowned and Allah enrolled him in the noble army of Martyrs. 323 As for me would Heaven I had been drowned with him, but Allah deemed that I should be of the saved; so when I awoke and found myself in the sea and saw the ship making off like a dash of lightning, He threw in my way a piece of timber which I bestrided, and the waves tossed me to and fro till they cast me upon an island coast, a high land and an uninhabited.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He may not be a political colossus but he bestrides Scotland with an absolute and unchallenged power.
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It's astonishing that our political leaders from both parties apparently believe that the United States can continue to bestride the world like an imperial colossus remaking entire societies in the image put forth by the Council of Foreign Relations or the American Enterprise Institute while at the same time becoming a pauper state that cannot even provide health care for its senior citizens.
Joseph A. Palermo: For Progressives, Debt Ceiling "Deal" Was a Real Downer
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Now when Kanmakan heard these words, he cried out, saying, “O villain, this I bestride is the steed whereof ye speak and after which ye seek, and ye would do battle with me for his sake’ So come out against me, all of you at once, and do you dourest for the nonce!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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( "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/like a Colossus ....")
Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon
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Outside, before each room, a tin fireplace for cooking precariously bestrided the veranda rail.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
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The team that saw France bestride the football world for the first time ever had more colours than a chameleon and, ultimately, did more for race relations than any number of government initiatives.
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At noon when we stopped, the men rolled up a barrel of pork on to the deck and one of them, named Cheek bestrided with a tomahawk, crying out "give the word Captain.
Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans
