Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit of
bestride .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
bestride .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bestride .
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Examples
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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.
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Britain bestrode the world like a colossus and only those with strong nerves or weak judgment dared challenge the Pax Britannica.
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Would her proteanness never end? he wondered, as he glanced over the magnificent, sweating, mastered creature she bestrode.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch bestrode the media world like a colossus.
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"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."
Allison Pearson's 'I Think I Love You': A celebrity crush turns star-crossed 2011
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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.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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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."
Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley 2010
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In making the "intrusiveness" argument, Cameron is probably drawing on a dimly remembered era in Tory folk memory when feminists bestrode the Earth.
Child benefit and binocular man Richard Alcock 2010
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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."
Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley 2010
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"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."
Allison Pearson's 'I Think I Love You': A celebrity crush turns star-crossed 2011
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