BESTRIDE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for BESTRIDE, such as:

1. They even bestride the carriage lamps.
2. America's media companies bestride the globe.
3. To open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second only.

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 Meanings and Examples of BESTRIDE
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bestride
 v.  get up on the back of
Classic Sentence:
1  To open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second only.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
2  They even bestride the carriage lamps.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
Example Sentence:
1  America's media companies bestride the globe.