How To Use bestride In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- ( "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/like a Colossus ....") Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon
- 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
- 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
- He may not be a political colossus but he bestrides Scotland with an absolute and unchallenged power.
- 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
- America's media companies bestride the globe.
