Bestrode

Word BESTRODE
Character 8
Hyphenation be strode
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Bestrode"

What do we mean by bestrode?

To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.

To stride over, or across.

To dominate.

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The word "bestrode" in example sentences

So they gave him each an hundred gold pieces, after which he slew them and took their mules, one of which he mounted, whilst Ala al-Din bestrode the other. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To be sure, "Greater Germany was a reality: it bestrode the continent, its economy was the strongest and its political model was the most dynamic." ❋ Jonathan Yardley (2010)

"I realized I could bear just about any kind of awkwardness, embarrassment or disappointment, but I never, ever wanted to feel sorry for the man who once bestrode my world like a colossus in a white catsuit trimmed with silver studs." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Also, in the end she wept, so that I was raped of my vision, and it was Har, naked and clinging, that bestrode the stallion when he vaulted away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In making the "intrusiveness" argument, Cameron is probably drawing on a dimly remembered era in Tory folk memory when feminists bestrode the Earth. ❋ Richard Alcock (2010)

Sometimes it almost frightens me to think that they are grandchildren, MY grandchildren — I, who only the other day, it would seem, was as heart-free, leg-free, care-free a girl as ever bestrode a horse, or swam in the big surf, or gathered opihis at low tide, or laughed at a dozen lovers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch bestrode the media world like a colossus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Would her proteanness never end? he wondered, as he glanced over the magnificent, sweating, mastered creature she bestrode. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Britain bestrode the world like a colossus and only those with strong nerves or weak judgment dared challenge the Pax Britannica. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They bestrode the land like something between giant versions of the teddy bears we clutched for comfort as a child when trying to sleep and new, street-savvy beasts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Might I draw your attention to the Assyrian Empire, the Hittite Empire, the Median Empire to name but a few examples of empires that rivaled those which you mention, in addition to the Persian Empire, the Parthian Empire, and so on that arose amongst the Aryan peoples in the region and which bestrode much of the known world of their time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Whereas once a DCI bestrode the division like a colossus, now they sit gently spinning in the office. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

As success bestrode success, he grew more easily into what people always saw him as: Like many masks this smiling, placid one has become so tight a fit that it might be said to have rewritten the features of whatever true face once screamed behind it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But as the lurkers in the trees signalled along their half seen ranks and closed all together in a sudden surge into the open at the edge of the ford, one man rose out of the bushes opposite and bestrode the grassy shelf of the shore, brandishing a long, two-tined pikel lashed to a six-foot pole, and sweeping the ford with it at breast height. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Along with Breville's sandwich toaster it bestrode the 70s and 80s DIY processed food landscape like a giant dust-gathering colossus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For elite athletes, who once bestrode the world stage and basked in the cheers of millions, it has to be even more challenging. ❋ Unknown (2010)

During the last ten years two athletes bestrode the planet: Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just as Reardon, though, with six world titles, was the dominant force of the 1970s, Davis, with six world and six UK titles, bestrode the 1980s with his consistent textbook excellence usually proving too much for those, like Higgins, reliant on more fitful inspiration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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